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- From: kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.204710.5808@reed.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:47:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov12.204710.5808
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <aldavi01.721333614@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> <1992Nov11.194557.16258@yarc.uucp>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Nov11.194557.16258@yarc.uucp> scott@yarc.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) writes:
- >
- > I think this is kinda what he is trying to determine. Typicaly UNIX
- >imposes far more structure on the user than is desired. I agree an
- >experienced user should be able to recognize and avoid the problems
- >above. What's wrong with the shell catching such obvious errors and
- >either reporting them or taking other appropriate action (ie correcting
- >them). I realize that this will get me screamed at by all you guru
-
- Is there any reason why there can't be another stream for more
- user-friendly messages? We have stdin and stderr, why can't there be
- a standard verbose stream as well? Experienced users could just
- direct it to /dev/null , or, to save cpu time, could have a flag that
- would disable it altogether.
-
- k
-
- >Reply to: scott@yarc.uucp |
-