Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 David.Middleton@eracom.com.au wrote:

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> That argument is total horse sh#$@%

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?

[root@locutus /root]# cat >testfile
 now is the time for all great men to test their files ^C
[root@locutus /root]# more testfile 
now is the time for all great men to test their files
[root@locutus /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.
 
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> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>@dhh.gt.org> on 07-09-2000 10:02:21 AM
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> Subject:  Re: Debian vs. Red Hat
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> 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.
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> _NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_
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> Ahhm.
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> Do you want to try to edit a binary database to fix screwups?
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> John Hasler
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John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu)