Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: patch (!) to 14-Sep-1989 C News patch
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.152748.727@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Sep16.225749.23376@utzoo.uucp> <4575@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 15:27:48 GMT

In article <4575@orca.WV.TEK.COM> jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes:
>>Sigh.  Sometimes life would be a whole lot simpler if patch didn't try
>>to be "smart", or at least if there were a way to tell it to stop thinking
>>and follow orders because we know what we're doing dammit...
>
>Well Henry, if you don't like it, write something better...

"Patch:  love it or leave it."?  Sorry, I don't buy that argument.  It's
a very useful program that could be still more useful if there were a way
to override some of its sometimes-excessively-smart features.
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"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu