Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 1999 03:54:40 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Re: kernel mirrors behavior changed |
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > Bull. Use normal FTP. And why on the Earth do you need to download > > from DOS, anyway? > > > > language to the upcomming linux masses, not somebody with 5-10 years of > > > unix administration experience. > > Huh??? *PLONK* > > No offense, Alex, but this is exactly the kind of attitude that annoys > newbies about Linux. You know, constant references to 5-10 years of UNIX SA experience allegedly needed just to {use FTP|RTFM|use shell|use vi|use EMACS|use patch|whatever} tend to annoy. Badly. Oh, and reference to "upcomming(sic) linux masses" in such context also doesn't amuse.
> A simple "Netscape has a strange behavior that causes > it to gunzip .gz files sent with a particular mime type, but forgets to take > the .gz off the extension, so use command line ftp or simply rename the file > from foo.gz to foo" would have been more productive. > > Jeff, I know exactly what you're talking about -- Navigator for Linux used to > do the exact same thing to me, when I was running 4.0x. Now that I'm running > 4.5, the behavior seems to have disappeared... but I'll still be thankful for > a stable, complete, *bloat-free* Mozilla release. Hey, maybe even > Communicator 5 will be decent. Uh-oh, what have I been smoking... =) Whatever it is, could you share? Seems to be really strong stuff.
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