From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 22:48:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B14516A4DE; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anthony.maher@uts.edu.au) Received: from gaz.itd.uts.edu.au (gaz.itd.uts.edu.au [138.25.22.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF9C43D45; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:48:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anthony.maher@uts.edu.au) Received: by gaz.itd.uts.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 1011) id 0D617A318E; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:44:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaz.itd.uts.edu.au (Postfix/Intermediary) with ESMTP id EF0C3A31E5; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:44:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from vimes (vimes.itd.uts.edu.au [138.25.243.34]) by gaz.itd.uts.edu.au (Postfix/Ingress) with ESMTP id D7287A318E; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:44:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from [138.25.81.47] by postoffice.uts.edu.au (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTPS id <0J5500EY260VLRB0@postoffice.uts.edu.au>; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:48:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:48:31 +1000 From: Tony Maher In-reply-to: <44FDF36A.3010608@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton Message-id: <44FDFEBF.90708@uts.edu.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <200609020956.54008.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> <20060902031247.GE749@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060904192006.GA3292@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <44FD994C.70104@errno.com> <44FDEE7C.9060104@FreeBSD.org> <44FDF245.9000302@elischer.org> <44FDF36A.3010608@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060511 Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer , Garance A Drosehn Subject: Re: Adding a '-D date' option to `cat' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:48:33 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > ... >>Date could have had this feature added in 20 lines of C. >>you'd rather create a whole new beaurocracy. > > What would be really useful here is if the people who want this could > focus on the end result (having the tool you need to do the job) rather > than the methodology of achieving that result. The door is open, walk > through it. No - not that door!!! The #00FF00 colored door. No that not it, thats #03C03C. NOT THAT ONE EITHER!!! Thats #66FF00. Please the #00FF00 door! sigh -- tonym