JupiterHost.Net,
"Tell you mom I said hi, she appreciates me"
Is this word said by you? I think you are very rude,not only to Grant,but to
all the people on this list.
This kind beginners list has been smirched by your words.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "JupiterHost.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Jan 20, 2006 9:31 AM
>To: Grant Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, beginners@perl.org
>Subject: Re: CLOSED Re: Obtaining complete Unix command line that evoked
>script as string
>
>
>
>Grant Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> Forced to make time to get off this list as the volume is too much for
>> the megre limit my ISP sets.
>>
>> Thanks again for those that helped; my working solution seems OK for now.
>>
>> Below is a reply to anonymous ("JupiterHost.Net"), anyone else is
>> welcome to ignore it.
>>
>>
>>> Writing a new shell is quick and cheap?
>>
>>
>> Perhaps you missed the solution I posted, it was a rather long post. It
>> uses a single line of shell code and a small, simple, perl module, a far
>> cry from a new shell ;-)
>>
>> I've snipped most of your remarks as either you've missed my solution or
>> you can't see that the assumptions you're making don't fit my situation.
>> Important point is that I'm not not taking your advice because I've got
>> an attitude or I think your "wrong", I'm not taking it because it
>> doesn't fit my particular purpose. To repeat from my earlier post: I
>> don't have a choice about using a mixture of shell and perl, its not
>> something I can choose, even if I wanted to.
>>
>>
>>> I'd tone down the attitude of people trying to make your life easier :)
>>
>>
>> I know you've accidentally left out some words, but perhaps its also
>> your subconcious giving you some advice? ;-) For your sake I'll do the
>> decent thing and *not* take your advice! :-) (Which I'm sure you'll be
>> happy about.)
>>
>>
>>> a) you simply cannot get the entire command without making a custom
>>> shell
>>
>>
>> Erm, 'history 1' seems to... what's missing? Its available in at least
>> bash and tcsh, which is all I need to worry about for now. I don't mind
>> if some obscure shells aren't supported. I'll check zsh sometime later,
>> its important for my immediate use. 'sh' isn't relevant for me, FWIW,
>> given tcsh and bash are common.
>>
>> (I know I also have to record the environment variables, but that's not
>> hard in my case.)
>>
>>
>>> you can lead a horse to water but you can't push him in :)
>>
>>
>> Sure, I agree. I'm happy to take anyone's advice and I do. But if the
>> advice doesn't fit, the most sensible thing is not take it, right?
>> There's nothing personal about that, so this sort of reply is a bit
>> silly in that context.
>>
>> But just for fun, by analogy, your quote makes an assumption; it assumes
>> the water isn't filthy, polluted and off-putting to the horse in which
>> case you probably couldn't even lead a *sensible* horse to it :-) A
>> smart horse might choose to be stubborn because it can see it doesn't
>> make sense..
>
>Cute, you're an idiot (sorry traffic was bad and I've still got some
>road rage).
>
>I know I said no more replies from me but I don't want silence to be
>assumed that you made any sort of valid point.
>
>*You* are the one who missed the point, and still are:
>
>There are easier, better, more portable, (IE pronounced "with Perl or
>*any* other language or system") etc etc ways to get the data you want
>regardless of the project.
>You just may need to rethink how you go about it.
>
>The insults all started when you kept saying no one here understood what
>you where saying, when they in fact did but where giving an answer you
>still don't seem to comprehend and now I'm ending them with this message.
>
>In other words a rube goldberg machine will work, and it can be fun to
>fiddle with, but there are more practical ways to do it in general, but
>still a rube goldberg isn't bad mind you just not as efficient or easy
>to take around with you.
>
>I'm very sorry I wasted time trying to help, and hope the best on your
>project. and with that I'll make you deal:
>
>I'll shut up if you do, agreed?
>
>This is absolutley the last reply I'll make to this thread regardless of
>how stubbornly clueless and unreasonable the reply is.
>
>Tell you mom I said hi, she appreciates me :) (ok that was juvenial but
>fun ;p)
>
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