xfer problems sco-sun

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:27:08PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Jay Ashworth--said:
> > > What tools can be defined as standard.
> > 
> > "The tools that ship with my distribution."
> 
> Oh, -that's- misleading.  Christ, have you compared GNU gettext to say,
> gettext that ships with Solaris?
> 

The combined implications of my comment were that if it didn't fit the
qualifications, either the distribution manager wouldn't have included
it... or it wouldn't have been a good enough distro for me to select.  

> I repeat...  And that's -one- example.  :)

:-)

> > Yeah; vim doesn't have that problem; I've successfully read and written
> > multi-megabyte files with 3 (count 'em, 3) LF's.
> 
> I've done the same.  However, I was doing it in emacs before vim existed
> and when vi couldn't.  :)

Showoff.

> > > But as I look at things changing things for reasons such as 'easier
> > > to use', 'use standard tools' 'everyone else does it like that' is
> > > always the successful way.   My POV is that if you are going to
> > > change don't follow the world, find a better way of doing things,
> > > as being a copycat is not usually the way to financial success.
> 
> Tell that to all the vendors with PC clones.  :)

Check their books.

> > Depends on your goals.
> 
> I don't play that "fake" Euro football, so I have no goals.  :)

:-)

> That line about having no goals sounds like something I'd put on one of
> those self-appraisal questionaires like my wife's company handed out.  What
> a load of BS questions.  "My goals?  Uhm, getting paid enough to keep health
> insurance and a modicum of the amenities, what the heck do you THINK my
> goals are?"  Companies (especially beaurocracies) ask the dumbest questions.

Yeah.  Except that that isn't what *everyone's* goals are, and in fact,
it's pretty hackerish.

Cheers,
-- jra
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