From: Miguel Angel (maacruz@navegalia.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 20:14:48 CEST
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Gerhard Thimm kindly wrote:
> Miguel Angel schrieb:
> >
> > On Mon, 08 May 2000, Jef Knoors kindly wrote:
> > > Dear Miguel,
> > >
> > > I incidently erased the ulinux8r3b.raw file that I downloaded from you
> > > homepage.
> > > I did this while making a bootfloppy with the comand:
> > >
> > > rawrite2 a: ulinux8r3b.raw
> > >
> > > So the floppy was read and the image file was overwritten. Althoug this is
> > > my own mistake, it might be pleasant to get a warning : file already exist !
> > > Do you want to overwrite it ? Y [n]
> > >
> > > This can be helpfull even as a warning concerning the floppy: All data will
> > > be erased !
> > > Just incause you mistype the parameters.
> > >
> > > Jef
> >
> > Ok, i'll add it. Now i'm heavily improving rawrite2, so expect a new release
> > very soon.
> >
> This is really interesting. These is typically DOS. Warning when ever
> possible. On the other hand in unix there should be a -i option similar
> to rm, cp or mv. So perhaps you should add a /yes-switch to suppress the
> Warning. :-)
This option can be really needed to do batch proccessing, but actually the
program only warns dangerous situations, but the overwriting warning
requested by Jef. A DOS yes command could be more funny :-D
>
> When Ken Thomson, the designer of UNIX at Bell/AT&T, was ask why UNIX is
> so user-unfriendly and never gives a warning. He told, he likes computer
> to be a butler and not a nanny.
>
> An other profound sentence came from D. Ritche, designer of C, the
> Programmer always knows what he is doing.
Yes, a good programmer neber makes an mistace :-D
--
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