Re: Advantages/disadvantages of various mbox types
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:08:10PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13 at 08:57 PM, quoth Chris Green:
> >>True that the GNU grep -r extension is not portable. But it is
> >>convenient. And you can always install the GNU utilities on your
> >>system.
> >>
> >I can, but as I said previously this is a work system so I can't do
> >quite exactly what I like with it. It is often a requirement that our
> >systems are 'very standard' which, in our case, means default Solaris
> >utilities.
>
> Isn't this essentially like saying "MySQL isn't as good as flat-files
> because it doesn't ship with Solaris"?
Well, MySQL isn't as good as flat-files because it'll drop data without
error, but that's a different story... :)
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