From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 14: 3:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ED837B625 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14uKop-0002Rt-00; Tue, 01 May 2001 09:02:55 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Doug Russell" Cc: "Donn Miller" , Subject: RE: tail Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:02:23 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: No, the behavior should stay the same by default, with a flag that can be :: used to turn on "sanity checking". You would have to change FAR, FAR too :: many things to make the whole system dafault to "typo proof" behavior. :: :: Like I said in my previous message, having some sort of add-on that you :: could use to MAKE the system more user-friendly, etc would be a very :: worthwhile (although rather large) project, and 'A Good Thing'. Changing :: the default behavior of the entire system to be more like Windows is NOT. So you're basically saying that for normal users, tail et al should recognise special files like directories, but for superusers (and maybe in single user/maintenance mode) it should default to the old-style behaviour? That would indeed be a big project... I wouldn't worry about making FreeBSD "more like Windows". Have you ever tried the Windows (DOS/NT CMD) command line? -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message