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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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