From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 22 11:51:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02532 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA02519 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA15884 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:51:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA28607; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:24:15 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970422202415.WW23013@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:24:15 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix-haters References: <199704212045.NAA12992@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jason Andresen on Apr 21, 1997 18:22:11 -0400 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jason Andresen wrote: > My final impression was that the book would be good for pointing out some > of the fundimental difficulties that new users have, and maybe a few > technical problems, but on the whole, the book would be dated and not > relevant to the current generation of UN*Xs. Well, the fundamental critics on the terminal subsystem still hold valid, albeit it's something that can't be changed that late in the game. Some other of their points are also valid, and are changeable, like the horrid design of the file handling in indent(1). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)