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On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:26:00 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> >>>>Then you should understand the need for detailed error reports and |
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> reading the output from the various commands. |
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> I always set verbosity to very high or max... |
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What's the point if you don't include the output is your posts/rants? |
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Anyway, all verbose does is hide the important messages among a load of |
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trivial messages about everything working as it should. |
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> Back in the good old days there was this OS called DOS. All of it's |
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> commands told you what they were and what they were doing by default, |
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> and were, almost universally quite enjoyable to use. =\ |
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> These days you just get the next command prompt, and have no idea how |
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> much your previous command might have deleted or otherwise screwed up. |
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Succeed quietly, fail noisily, it's the Unix way. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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System halted - Press all keys at once to continue. |
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