On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> That argument is total horse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You ought to know, being as you are apparently an expert on horse manure,
judging from what comes out of your mouth (or fingers, as the case may be)
> Would you like to edit a text file without an editor???
Is cat an editor?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# cat >testfile
now is the time for all great men to test their files ^C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# more testfile
now is the time for all great men to test their files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]#
> Either way you need tools to do the work, this idea that you can't assemble
> a binary file to be easy to human correct in the event of partial
> corruption is crap. It just needs good design.
I doubt it, but show me the code anyway.
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> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@dhh.gt.org> on 07-09-2000 10:02:21 AM
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> Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat
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> Chris Gray writes:
> > I understand that dpkg is a much easier tool to use. It is also a lot
> > slower. It would be nice to write it with a binary database.
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> _NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_
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> Ahhm.
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> Do you want to try to edit a binary database to fix screwups?
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