On 3/07/2006 9:14 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 3/07/2006 4:45 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> I thought Windows (the NT line) was >>> POSIX-compliant. >> What on earth gave you that idea? > > <http://fuckinggoogleit.com/?query=windows+nt+posix>
Thank you for your elegant and witty response. The POSIX sub-system of Windows NT 4+ is POSIX-compliant to some degree. This is not the same as saying that the whole of Windows is POSIX-compliant. It means that people who write applications using that subsytem can achieve the same result as if the app was being run on a *x platform. This is as wonderful and as useless as tits on a bull. So what do you do if you redirect stdout to a file and a user complains that Notepad won't grok it? Teach him/her to use vi[m]? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list