Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> I came up with a better idea (I think). 
[...]
> Get ready:
> 2 programs filer & apt-get-filer
[...]

You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing
working out, though there would be some pathelogical cases..

$ filer HelloWorld.c
gcc
gpp
vim
elvis
vi
vile
emacs19
emacs20
nedit
indent
ted
gzip
bzip2
compress
md5sum
wc
...

But, a question to ask -- how often do you actually have a file from
somewhere, without the program to do something with it? If it happens often,
it might be a wonderful thing to have. But, it almost never happens to me..

Still, a pretty decent idea. :)

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