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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ugly hack
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:29:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215182922.K9084@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0302151105570.14996-100000@athena>; from Sam on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:18:41AM -0500

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:18:41AM -0500, Sam wrote:
>
> Would I were bothered by this, I'ld be more inclined
> towards:
>
I get bitten by the presence of the tar file and extraction directory
in the same place, with unholily long names.  And, yes, RIO does help,
but I use too much Unix to wean myself off old habits.

> Always better to use the tools than hack them if at all
> possible.
>
It's (hopefully) a transparent adjustment.  And, even if possibly
undocumented, a step towards conventional Unix behaviour.  What I'm
curious about, is where it may not be as transparent as I think.

++L


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-15 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-15 15:46 Lucio De Re
2003-02-15 16:18 ` Sam
2003-02-15 16:21   ` Dan Cross
2003-02-15 16:29   ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2003-02-15 23:56 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-16  9:20   ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16  9:25     ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 12:18       ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 12:45         ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 14:19 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-16 15:00   ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-16 15:31     ` David Butler
2003-02-16 15:40     ` Russ Cox
2003-02-17  5:27       ` Lucio De Re
2003-02-17  9:53 ` John Kodis

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