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SubjectRe: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense)
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 10:34:18PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:59:48AM +1000, Nathan Hand wrote:
> > I think this is a fabricated reason to put the functionality into the
> > kernel. GUI users *don't* use the command line. People who do use the
> > command line will understand the implications and will move the whole
> > directory (using tar, or recursive copy).
>
> So your GUI apps will have to do everything for you, cause they can't call
> command-line tools to do the job.

I'm sorry, I can't see that belief expressed anywhere in my paragraph, you
must have been reading somebody elses post.

> You know what Un*x philosophy is about?
> I'll tell you: Having a lot of small, clean, flexible tools, which you can
> combine to get what you want, either on the command line or by a GUI using
> them.

Gee, I guess anyone who doesn't want Macintosh/Windows style forks mustn't
be a True UNIX User. Silly me.

> So what you ask for is this 1GB Mega Office app doing everything in one
> place. You want to reinvent W*n and its style of apps and have these on
> Un*x. Forget it!

Of course, tell me what I want, this is an excellent argument.

Is this the best you can do?

Nothing is stopping a GUI app from calling tar. Your argument's a complete
misrepresentation of the alternate solution. Try to see both sides.

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