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Subject: Re: linux issues

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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