Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:08:55 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: albods |
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > 4. Possible variants (all): > > Note that all of these ideas have problems. You have to break either > "ftp" or "cat". Choose your poison, or choose to do it the Unix way -- > use a user level library, and accept that the normal utilities may not > deal with compound files in nice ways.
This is an important point. 'cat /lib/libc.so.6' does horrible things on and to my terminal. Is cat broken? No, I'm broken if I think that this command means anything useful. 'cat /libc/libc.so.6 > libc.so.6' works just fine.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu A Brazil-nut is neatly packaged and tightly integrated. To turn it into food, you must crack and remove the shell. I find that I feel the same way about an increasing number of software products. *sigh*
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