Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 00.15 schrieb Joshua Lee:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:55:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Joshua Lee writes:
> > > However, it should be pretty easy to implement a script that would run
> > > pon, fetch your mail, and run poff to disconnect once successful though.
> [...]
> > soon as it receives it from your MUA (e.g. mutt, gnus, etc.). If pppd is
> > configured for demand dialing (use pppconfig) it will immediately dial up
> > and the message will be delivered. Then waiting mail will be downloaded and
> [...]
> > A rule of thumb for Linux: When you think "there ought to be a way to do
> > this" there usually is.
>
> A rule of thumb for Perl that also applies to Linux is "there's more than
> one way to do it". :-)
Yeah, but in bash, most of those ways earn you the "Useless Use of Cat
Award" :)
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