From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 21 11:23:33 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00553 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:23:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00537 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:23:20 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23836; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:21:59 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA06842 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:21:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA03175 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 19:57:35 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503211857.TAA03175@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: edit-pr To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 19:57:32 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <24168.795802439@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 08:13:59 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1245 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Well, Jordan doesn't like our solutions, he would rather waste programmers > > time :-). > > Sheesh! OK, OK, I surrender. Orthogonality means nothing. The > traditional UNIX command behavior of taking or OR MORE arguments is > bogus. I'll just crawl back in my little hole now! :-) I've also stumpled across this. The worst at all: edit-pr doesn't even bomb me with something like ``usage: hey you are stupid that you are, don't gimme more than one argument'', it silently does what i think is wrong -- just picking the first one only and pretending it's all right. Where's the source for edit-pr? Should go into CVS? Pleeze, put it into CVS somewhere. Rather than complaining i'd go to fix it. Perhaps we need a third CVS repository (besides src and ports), something where we can drop our development stuff that's not actually intended to be shipped along with the system. I've already been seeking for such a place for my easy-import script. What about `devel'? Should be shipped to the CVS suppers/ctmers, but not go into the regular distribution. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)