Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:31:21 05/24/02
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On May 24, 2002 at 18:12:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On May 24, 2002 at 11:49:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 24, 2002 at 11:29:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>The real major problem with linux is the unix modelling concept of >>>having loads of small tools which can be piped and ported or whatever >>>to each other. >>> >>>find . | sort | count >>> >>>This whole concept means that you get thousands of small tools and toys, >>>something completely the opposite of what the nature of a human demands. >>> >> >> >>Totally wrong. It is the holy grail of software engineering. IE you want >>a copy of the console output of a program? How do you get it in windows? >>You don't. In unix: crafty | tee logfile. > >If you don't need to see the output on the screen, a simple "crafty > logfile" >would work. Otherwise, it took me about 5 seconds to find a "tee" equivalent >that I could download for DOS. I could also just copy and paste the window >output into a file. I want the _complete_ console output saved. crafty >x won't exactly help as now I see no output from crafty at all while trying to play a game. :) > >>I don't think anybody in their right mind will compare unix shells to windows. >>I've used both. Unix is 100x more powerful. > >The DOS prompt has become pretty powerful lately. It certainly doesn't have all >the things the UNIX command line has, but I'd say there are ways to do most of >the stuff with the standard tools. You can also download DOS equivalents to >most of the UNIX command shell tools nowadays. Aha... "dos equivalent of unix tools". That says it all. :)
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