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| From: | "Raye Raskin" <rayer AT pobox DOT com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:12:57 -0800 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:40PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote: >>The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune. >> >>The program is misnamed. > > Hmm. Ever heard of "grep" or "ls"? Fortune is much closer to being named > something that makes sense than several other programs in the distribution. > > cgf If "grep" were named "delete" and everyone lived with it, then I could understand with your analogy. But the way it is, I can't. Maybe someone should ask Torvald, not Red Hat. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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