From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: <17CDC3F3-B3E2-44AE-BA7A-31D2315A4DB9@mac.com> From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <832.1226704881@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:30:44 -0500 References: <832.1226704881@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43660fe2-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > commentary This is because those programs use stdout for status indication, much like hget -v. Think of wget, which is forced to use a terminal in order to make a progress bar. The idea is simple, and I'd like to go into more detail: the modern UNIX programmers want to make it easier for a more general public to use it, even at the risk of losing what UNIX was originally intended to. Ergo, we are more like UNIX than GNU or BSD is. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkkeCiUACgkQuv7AVNQDs+x4NwCeJwB+z6W4fChQEO9VSB7tz1Xu vX0An1tEeZlmxBKXEFFG0D+MXstTGL0h =M4Bq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----