Re: when using `which` send errors to /dev/null
On 2007-05-27 08:26:53 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 26May2007 18:37, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | On 2007-05-26 21:56:35 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | > Of course, such a system isn't a UNIX system...
> |
> | Is there any reason why Mutt should not run on non-UNIX systems?
>
> I can think of numerous things that might fail: maildir file names,
There are other mailbox formats and they may be sufficient.
> curses support and ttys, etc.
curses has been ported on other systems (for instance, the ncurses
library has been ported to OS/2 Warp).
> The point here is that once you start trying to support nonUNIX,
> the number of things that suddenly must become tunable becomes very
> very large.
I'm not sure about that. Anyway, the solution concerning the PATH
separator exists and is well-known. So, why not use it?
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