Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does man know? Keywords: more, io redirection Message-ID: <11196@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Sep 89 01:42:44 GMT References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> <53@rsoft.bc.ca> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 16 In article <53@rsoft.bc.ca> frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter) writes: >The authors obviously expected that the usual case would be ... Right, and instead of allowing users to decide how to configure their own environment, they decided to force a particular usage model on everybody. The addition of an option to turn off the inappropriate assumption is no excuse make making it in the first place. People who are having trouble understanding my viewpoint should read the initial portion of Kernighan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming Environment". UNIX is not just any old operating system, it embodies a point of view on how computing should be done. I believe that its early acquisition of enthusiastic proponents was largely due to their appreciation of these ideas, which have not lost their power when appropriately exploited.