Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> I love the Unix philosophy of making specific, lightweight tools that 
>> interoperate, rather than gargantuan monolithic beasts that do 
>> everything rather poorly.
> 
> See, now, personally I hate that. It annoys the hell out of me that the 
> Unix way is to use 50,000 tiny tools with all have far too many 
> backwards compatibility modes, bugs and "features".

So what you're really saying, is that we need a modern implementation of 
traditional Unix style tools, distributed as a package.  It wouldn't 
need a ton of that backwards-compatibility stuff, because all of the 
included tools are fresh implementations that we know work together.

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...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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