Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:47:44 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX Humour Message-ID: <20030917204744.GF72628@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <rrvfrrdufb.frr@mail.comcast.net> References: <200309171727.h8HHRWZv018888@cwsys.cwsent.com> <uf1xufffoo.xuf@mail.comcast.net> <20030917201400.GE72628@luke.immure.com> <rrvfrrdufb.frr@mail.comcast.net>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:36:08PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > 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. Okay, but it still doesn't seem worth it to me. Most "poor dumb users" that I know stick with Windows anyway. :-( They don't do anything at a command line level. Bob -- Bob Willcox "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" bob@immure.com -- Steven Wright Austin, TX
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