Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 02:23:40 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>, "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <15085.4860.848971.308268@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFIEOJCCAA.juha@saarinen.org> References: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFIEOJCCAA.juha@saarinen.org>
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Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> types: > :: UNIX is about doing what you ask for. You want to tail/cat a > :: directory, who is the system to tell you otherwise. > > That's just silly. > > Who hasn't mistakenly tailed/cat'ed a directory? > > I thought the "User-unfriendliness Is Cool" era was long buried. User-unfriendliness Is Cool is indeed buried. Deciding that the user shouldn't do something because you don't think it's a good idea is User-unfriendly, which is why Unix doesn't *do* things like that. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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