Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 18:30:50 GMT References: <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> <=YN6UN5@xds13.ferranti.com> <8460@scolex.sco.COM> <11R6593@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Oct29.232733.2065@sctc.com> <3341@tantalum.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <3341@tantalum.UUCP> cheeks@edsr.eds.com writes: > So, there's my two cents. I guess what I'd like to see is the OS vendors > incorporating more up-to-date algorithms in some of the old utilities > (egrep and awk seem to be the biggest offenders). I'd be satisfied if one of them went through their source and whenever they have !fprintf(stderr, "Can't open %s\n", file);! replaced it with !perror(file)!. It'd be nicer if they'd apply some smarts to the problem but even a brain-dead fix like this one would be wonderful! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com