From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:46:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920811141546m456b8037i627fb98eb5619834@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17CDC3F3-B3E2-44AE-BA7A-31D2315A4DB9@mac.com>
I wonder why was stderr invented...
uriel
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
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>> commentary
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> 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.
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> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 19:50 Nolan Hamilton
2008-11-14 20:04 ` michael block
2008-11-14 20:08 ` Robert Raschke
2008-11-14 20:20 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 21:26 ` Russ Cox
2008-11-14 21:31 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 21:42 ` ron minnich
2008-11-14 23:21 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-11-14 23:30 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-14 23:46 ` Uriel [this message]
2008-11-14 23:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-15 0:22 ` Uriel
2008-11-15 0:36 ` [9fans] Thank you (was Re: Help downloading Plan B using hget) Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-15 2:10 ` [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget Nolan Hamilton
2008-11-14 23:55 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-11-14 20:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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