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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:36:08 -0700
From:      underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX Humour
Message-ID:  <rrvfrrdufb.frr@mail.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030917201400.GE72628@luke.immure.com> (Bob Willcox's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:14:00 -0500")
References:  <200309171727.h8HHRWZv018888@cwsys.cwsent.com> <uf1xufffoo.xuf@mail.comcast.net> <20030917201400.GE72628@luke.immure.com>

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Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes:

> Well, I, for one, hardly think it would be worth it to attempt to make
> the shell smart enough to detect this kind of "ignorant expert" error.

I was referring to software with "metadata" features, so a shell would
need to be very little smarter and be able to get it right every time
and be able to easily give poor dumb users some decent error messages.



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