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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:20:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        jbryant@server.iadfw.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap
Message-ID:  <199503212220.OAA02338@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <5780.795824094@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 02:14:54 pm

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> I mean that having both a device driver (/dev/ft0) and a special
> user-agent for dealing with it (ft) violates the UNIX principle of
> least surprise.  I should be able to do:
> 
> 	tar cvf /dev/ft0 <some path>

Find somebody willing to do it, and Jesus Monroy Junior doesn't count.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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