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- From: so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:27:15 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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- I am doing research on UNIX command line interface problems.
- I am sure everyone has his/her favorite UNIX troubles, would
- you post or email me what's your favorites? What should have
- been done by UNIX to resolve that problem in general?
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- Does anybody know of excellent papers in this area? I know
- about Norman's "The Trouble with UNIX".
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- To start the discussion, consider the following problems:
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- cat a b > b
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- This is a general problem of trying to modify the input
- file.
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- rm -filename_with_a_hyphen
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- This is a general problem of name clash (clashing filename
- with command options.)
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- mail somebody < a.out
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- Sending binary file should be uuencoded first. This is a
- general type conflict problem.
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- Bryan So
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