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- From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.071411.7950@wixer.cactus.org>
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- Sender: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1992Nov11.210729.11676@cs.wisc.edu> <BARNETT.92Nov12092045@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <1992Nov12.231845.14014@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 07:14:11 GMT
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- so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So) writes:
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- >Concerning "cat a b > b", barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
- >
- >>It has been solved. There are at least two solutions:
- >> 1) Educate the user. After all the system did exactly what
- >> the user told it to do.
- >> 2) in csh/tcsh, do "set noclobber"
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- > [these are not solutions, because]
- >
- >1. We should assume some stubborn users cannot be educated. I
- > claim without proof such users exist.
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- Users which cannot grasp the concept of files being overwritten will
- not be able to grasp the concept of output redirection. Such users,
- if they do exist, should not be catered to. Let evolution work its
- course.
-
- >Bryan
-
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- Felix Sebastian Gallo rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
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