Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:32:10 +1000 | From | Nathan Hand <> | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) |
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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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