UNIX Humour

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:36:08PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Bob Willcox <bob at 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

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Bob Willcox         "You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?"
bob at immure.com                 -- Steven Wright
Austin, TX