From: Jef Knoors ([email protected])
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 09:27:27 CEST
I think most of the reactions about being an expert or dummy miss out a
vital element:
I have no free choice to work on the system I would prefer !
And many others work in places they just have to cope with wat they've got.
I did 2 studies to learn WordPerfect 5.1, t.i. basics and advanced.
Enough to run the whole office here. But I am forced by 'general opions' to
use M$ now.
Now a days people don't study programs anymore, just point and click.
I think that if companies would understand how much time we SAVE by
following studie, they would pay for it and give us the time for it.
jef
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Angel <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Rawrite2
> On Tue, 09 May 2000, Gerhard Thimm kindly wrote:
> > Miguel Angel schrieb:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 08 May 2000, Jef Knoors kindly wrote:
> > > > Dear Miguel,
> > > >
> > > > I incidently erased the ulinux8r3b.raw file that I downloaded from
you
> > > > homepage.
> > > > I did this while making a bootfloppy with the comand:
> > > >
> > > > rawrite2 a: ulinux8r3b.raw
> > > >
> > > > So the floppy was read and the image file was overwritten. Althoug
this is
> > > > my own mistake, it might be pleasant to get a warning : file already
exist !
> > > > Do you want to overwrite it ? Y [n]
> > > >
> > > > This can be helpfull even as a warning concerning the floppy: All
data will
> > > > be erased !
> > > > Just incause you mistype the parameters.
> > > >
> > > > Jef
> > >
> > > Ok, i'll add it. Now i'm heavily improving rawrite2, so expect a new
release
> > > very soon.
> > >
> > This is really interesting. These is typically DOS. Warning when ever
> > possible. On the other hand in unix there should be a -i option similar
> > to rm, cp or mv. So perhaps you should add a /yes-switch to suppress the
> > Warning. :-)
>
> This option can be really needed to do batch proccessing, but actually the
> program only warns dangerous situations, but the overwriting warning
> requested by Jef. A DOS yes command could be more funny :-D
>
> >
> > When Ken Thomson, the designer of UNIX at Bell/AT&T, was ask why UNIX is
> > so user-unfriendly and never gives a warning. He told, he likes computer
> > to be a butler and not a nanny.
> >
> > An other profound sentence came from D. Ritche, designer of C, the
> > Programmer always knows what he is doing.
>
> Yes, a good programmer neber makes an mistace :-D
>
>
> --
> Don't see the world trought a window, be open{source}minded, and be free
:-)
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