From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jan 15 11:27:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (unknown [198.79.110.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703E437B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00483; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:26:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200101151926.LAA00483@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:26:26 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: bin/24271: dumpon should check its argument more To: billf@mu.org Cc: sam@inf.enst.fr, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010115120601.B61857@elvis.mu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15 Jan, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:21:23AM -0800, opentrax@email.com wrote: > >...[Trimmed]... > > I've been a native English speaker all my life and consider myself > fairly decent with the language. I, however, cannot figure out > what the hell... > > "use and interdepedencies can be measured with introducing new > command line arguments" > > .... is even supposed to mean. I'd suggest that whoever is running > the jmjr.pl script on our mailing lists turn down the "random words > from the jargon file" setting a notch or two. > Apparently, my statements were incorrect. Apparently, you don't do User Interfaces. The new book by Jef Raskin gets into many UI and GUI issues. I won't bore anyone with the details. If you are interested, it's called The Humane Interface (ISBN 0-2-1-37937-6) Have a nice day in the jargon file. :-) Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message