I'm sorry, I can't see that belief expressed anywhere in my paragraph, you
must have been reading somebody elses post.
> You know what Un*x philosophy is about?
> I'll tell you: Having a lot of small, clean, flexible tools, which you can
> combine to get what you want, either on the command line or by a GUI using
> them.
Gee, I guess anyone who doesn't want Macintosh/Windows style forks mustn't
be a True UNIX User. Silly me.
> So what you ask for is this 1GB Mega Office app doing everything in one
> place. You want to reinvent W*n and its style of apps and have these on
> Un*x. Forget it!
Of course, tell me what I want, this is an excellent argument.
Is this the best you can do?
Nothing is stopping a GUI app from calling tar. Your argument's a complete
misrepresentation of the alternate solution. Try to see both sides.
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