From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 20 23:59:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA11416 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (daemon@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA11411 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA29247; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:59:11 +1000 Received: by ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.7.5/DEVETIR-E0.3a) id SAA29659; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:02:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:02:40 +1000 (EST) From: Stephen McKay Message-Id: <199611210802.SAA29659@ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: benchmark X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) wrote: [Martin beats on NT for a while, then, surprisingly, has a go at Unix too] >Don't understand me wrong, Unix is junk, the whole concept to dump >output as loose ascii data to stadout and rescan it in the next pipe >citizen is ... l can't find words. If I read you right, you are complaining about the ability to easily supply the output from one program as input for another program. This is so amazingly useful, such a wondrously flexible tool, that I am stunned that anyone could slight it. Compare this vs the monolithic can't-get-at-the- workings-of-anything stuff typical of DOS/Windows. If you keep talking like this you'll never get a free beer out of me! Stephen.