Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:21:11 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Message-ID: <20050107032111.GJ16048@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <20050107020605 DOT 542EC122ABC AT majesty DOT pobox DOT com> <000e01c4f45e$819e12a0$5709a443 AT c40624a> <20050107025715 DOT GH16048 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <000e01c4f466$ca49eb20$5709a443 AT c40624a>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <000e01c4f466$ca49eb20$5709a443@c40624a>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:12:57PM -0800, Raye Raskin wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor"
>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.
>
>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.

Huh?  The name "fortune" is close to what it does.  It sort of displays
fortune cookie like stuff.  Labelling a program like grep with a English
word that has no bearing on its functionality is not a correct analogy.

>Maybe someone should ask Torvald, not Red Hat.

Now you've really lost me.  Do you think that Linus Torvalds has
something to do with grep, ls, delete, or fortune?  All of those
certainly predate his first exposure to UNIX by many years.

cgf

--
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/