[Coco] [Color Computer] What happend to http://www.nitros9.org/

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>
>> That's called a 'dos' shell, or sometimes a 'terminal', and it has a
>> simple (sometimes) interpreter to do what you type into it.  Here on a
>> linux box its probably called bash, for Bourne Again SHell, and its
>> actually a pretty complete language all by itself.  It this case
>> however, its simply finding the cvs executable, and handing the rest
>> of the line you typed in to cvs as its 'argument list', telling cvs
>> what to do.
>
>Beg to differ.  bash is a _very_ complete language all by itself.
>
Well, I did say it was pretty complete.  There isn't a heck of a lot it 
cannot do, so we're in violent agreement it seems.

>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>
>The first three aren't working.

I have some of the 4th, don't we all?  Frankly, that's the only reason the 
first 3 still exist IMNSHO.

>--
>Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
>
>Carjacking or impoundment? We now have two vocabularies for wrongs,
> depending on whether private persons or government agents commit them.
> This is the difference between mass murder and national defense.
> Between extortion and taxation. Between counterfeiting and inflation.
> And so on. Other examples will occur to the astute reader.   Joseph
> Sobran

Good quote too.



-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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