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Subject: Re: [ILUG] hard- vs. soft-links [was: How to copy some files ]
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Kevin wrote:
> am i the only one who thinks this is like "friday night 80's" for ilug?
> and here's an answer from 1989.  for those perceptive folks in the
> audience you'll note that it makes no reference to a windows icons.
<snip>
> so yeah, unrm would be nice, but obviously it's not a simple problem.
> millions of lines of code, hundreds of projects, no unrm.  heck, the
> hurd will probably release 1.0 before unrm shows up.

So what this tells us is:
1) There are very few new ideas.
2) Problems exists until someone gets annoyed enough to actually fix them
rather than find bizarre ways to solve the problem.
3) I have too much creative time on my hands with not enough productive
time.

>>From which we can infer that no work on unrm will be happening on my
computer for a long time.

:)

- Matthew


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