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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Help downloading Plan B using hget
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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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