On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@dhh.gt.org> on 07-09-2000 10:02:21 AM > > Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > cc: > Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat > > > 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. > > _NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_ > > Ahhm. > > Do you want to try to edit a binary database to fix screwups? > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > ***************************************************************** > This email has been checked by the e-Sweeper Service > ***************************************************************** > > > > > -- In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face. -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad" John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])