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RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:37:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]
- References: <SERRANO6faZWZaendgj00000260@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 08 September 2005 18:30
>
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> ----Original Message----
> >>> From: Public Mailing Lists
> >>> Sent: 08 September 2005 16:12
> >>
> >>> It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get
> >>> /dev.
> >>
> >> Aww! I wish I'd spotted that one earlier.
> >>
> >> I've had a giant 144-point, bold, underlined, bright red <blink>ing
> >> "RTFM" lying around for some time now and I thought I was never going to
> >> get the chance to use it in such a snappy answer ....
> >
> > Too bad I beat you to it, eh? :-D
> > Igor
>
> I feel your answer was too understated and subtle!
Agreed. Maybe we need to introduce an rtfm:// protocol -- just like the
http:// protocol, but also wraps every page in the kind of thing you
proposed...
Igor
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