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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.221405.7594@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: What is `getting it right'?
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com> <BxKM7p.724@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:14:05 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <BxKM7p.724@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- > In article <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- > >> Sending binary file should be uuencoded first.
-
- > >Nope. It should say "mail: Standard input contains NULL characters." And
- > >abort.
-
- > I disagree on this one. It should just work unless you are of the opinion
- > that computers should not handle arbitrary binary data. SysVr4 gets
- > this one right by checking the content before trying to display it but
- > not before delivering it to the right place.
-
- I disagree on this one. I can't stand the SVr4 mail program's unwillingness
- to display a file in which someone has accidentally put ONE backspace or
- escape. And of course there are nroff output files with
- _^hu_^hn_^hd_^he_^hr_^hl_^hi_^hn_^h_^he in them.
-
- This user says `Plugh!'
-
- (Really, until we all use some form of BLOB-linked-in-text we'll have this
- argument over and over.)
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-