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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.021538.25729@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Jack Sprat
- Organization: :
- References: <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com> <BxKM7p.724@chinet.chi.il.us> <BxpwnM.72o@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:15:38 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <BxpwnM.72o@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov12.221405.7594@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
-
- > >I disagree on this one. I can't stand the SVr4 mail program's unwillingness
- > >to display a file in which someone has accidentally put ONE backspace or
- > >escape. And of course there are nroff output files with
- > > _^hu_^hn_^hd_^he_^hr_^hl_^hi_^hn_^h_^he in them.
-
- > I meant the transport does the right thing in delivering the message as
- > sent. I didn't think anyone actually used SysV mail's user interface
- > (or lack thereof).
-
- > >This user says `Plugh!'
-
- > Do yourself a favor and compile ELM.
-
- This user says `bletch!' I've got ELM. It threw away a valuable piece of
- mail on me because the mail included another mail header. Right now I have
- a non-elm mailbox with a message in it that ELM will present out of order.
- ELM's handling of the cursor keys is just plain wrong. ... ... ...
-
- What? It's just fine for you and you haven't noticed any problems?
-
- Jack Sprat could eat no fat
- And his wife could eat no lean ...
-
- My favorite way to deal with mail is to go into vi, create a mail command
- with a here document filled with blank lines and ending in `x', and 1G!Gksh
- the whole thing. It subjects me to the fewest bogons of anything I've got.
- (Oh, you don't like vi? Fine with me. I'll put emacs up for you ... but
- don't pepper our source files with emacs directives or leave incomplete
- lines. Speaking of which, why does emacs display a line number for the
- next line when you are at the end and there isn't any next line? Bogus.)
-
- And _that_, perhaps, is the grace of UNIX over VMS and OS/2 and Motif
- and all those other highly-polished, highly developed straitjackets.
-
- There are four ways to do any task: the Right Way, the Wrong
- Way, the Navy Way, and My Way. And this, gentlemen, is my ship.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-