From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <035601c11c05$3aaf5d70$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010713124934.B1573199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <01a701c11b45$c066a3d0$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> <9kclqi$tn7$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:15:32 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8b14658-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > oh good, let's add that option to all programs that read files. > > No Boyd, I wouldn't recommend doing that. Sounds like you need to read > Kernighan and Plauger's _Software Tools_ where they discuss sort's -u > option. err, that was _sarcasm_. oh, software tools? read that -- some twenty years ago. did you _read_ the rest of what i wrote? > > > This has the advantage that you remain at the bottom of page 5 > > > rather than a new window opening on page 1. > This is "more efficient". In this case for the user as well as the > machine. really? and gv doesn't re-read the whole postscript file? where's the efficiency gain? that it stay's on page n? you could have an option that specifies a target page that you're interested in, avoiding some wasted graphics computation. windows are cheap. well, they _are_ on any reasonable window system. the same goes for processes. but gv primarily runs on X on unix, right? so both are expensive. > adieu eh? nobody says that. 'adieu' is pretty final. think about its literal meaning.