Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 20:09 on 10 Dec 2006
* Timothy Knox <tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-10 17:45]:
> Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 11:17:43AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > * Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-10 11:10]:
> > > All is well as long as one uses #!/bin/env tcsh in all
> > > scripts (the forked kind, not the sourced kind).
> > 
> > Sometimes there is /usr/bin/env but not /bin/env. Turtles all
> > the way down.
> 
> Not just sometimes. On the FreeBSD box I happen to do my email
> on, it's /usr/bin/env. People who only deal with a few (or one)
> flavour of Unix think portability is simple (just do it the way
> (my) Unix does it). I work in Linux (RHEL4 clone), Solaris (9,
> 10), and Cygwin/Windows. *sigh* Oh, and I forgot FreeBSD. And
> Mac OS X.
> 
> "Consistency? Hah! Simplicity? Hah! A Jedi craves not these
> things!"

The Sith, OTOH, decides that his software shall ignore local
conventions and always be installed in /var/qmail.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
There's stuff above here

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