* David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020212 14:33] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:23:31PM -0500, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > : * M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020212 10:35] wrote: > > > > > > Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-) > ... > > > > I hope you don't mean pdksh. As the stock sh under OpenBSD we've > > found it to be annoyingly buggy. Fortunately we rebased our appliance > > product to FreeBSD and don't have to deal with it any longer. > > > IS IT IN THE LEAST BIT POSSIBLE TO STAY ON TOPIC ON FREEBSD LISTS > ANYMORE??? And we wonder why so many do not bother with them any more.
Please refrain from acting like a turd towards someone doing a bit of advocacy as well as offering some real world advice to us about something we may be considering. I know perl is evil, but sh just isn't powerful enough and awk looks like line noise for the most part, and C is way painful for parsing, just looking for alternatives. Basically, take a pill David. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
