Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/17/18:02:45
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>>I'm not that concerned about Amiga OS.
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> I'm not surprised.
>
>Did you even read what I've left unsnipped above,
>
I glanced at it. Even went on line and googled around for Amiga OS a
little. Too much info too little time. As I said I'm not that concerned
about Amiga OS that much. Ancient OSes are of little interest to me
except as historical reading...
>which was my main point. The Amiga references was given as an _example_ of an OS where bash et al are _HARD_ to port, others may well exists, this was the one *I* knew about.
>
>
>>Honestly I don't know much about it. Is it even Unix like?
>>
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>More so than D.O.S. (i.e. cmd/command) is.
>
Who ever said that DOS was "unix like"!?! Hell we aren't discussing
whether or not "~" is understood by DOS (cmd/command)!?!
>Given the contents of geekgadgets the "unix-likeness" is or could be at the same level as cygwin
>provides - in some areas better, others lesser.
>
Then it should therefore sport a modern shell that at least understands
"~", no?
>('could be' as the development has "stopped")
>
Sorta like Latin, eh?
>Well - whatever, this os OT. :-] lets stop it.
>
But it's fun! :-)
I know, I know, old habits die hard and that is essentially my point. I
remember one time complaining about HP-UX not recognizing the backspace
key when logging into a tty. Old timers there quickly told me that del =
backspace which, to me at the time, was totally weird. Why put a key on
a keyboard labelled backspace which does not do backspace?!? Why have
del do a backspace instead?
One old timer piped up "Well in the old days sonny! [embellishing here a
little bit] we only had teletypes and if you looked at a the keys there
the DEL key was a lot easier to hit than the backspace key" to which I
gave a puzzled grin and replied "Who's using teletypes anymore?".
Another old timer remarked that the user could actually want a backspace
in their password to which I could think of two responses: 1) "What if
they wanted DEL?" and 2) "If they are wierd enough to want a backspace
in their password then they should have to escape it!".
OK, I had my quota of fun for this Friday. See y'all next week! :-)
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