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From: jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Summary: tools are for using.
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <492@silence.princeton.nj.us>
Date: 29 May 89 16:21:22 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> <9402@alice.UUCP>
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In article <9402@alice.UUCP>, andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
- In article <459@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
- > Long filenames are great. I use filenames all the time to hold
- > extra information, which allows database queries using shell meta-characters.
- 
- storing information is what a filesystem is for.
- if you want to use regular expressions, put the information
- in a file. don't complicate a universal mechanism like
- the file-system name space just so you can be lazy about
- selecting filenames.

Oh for cryin' out loud.

Tools are for using.  One of the best measures of a tool's
success is the number of ways users can find to use it which
were never anticipated by its maker.

Barnett is creative, not lazy.

	jay@princeton.edu