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Re: Help Understanding Path Issue


On Jun 30 12:10, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 June 2006 12:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 30 11:16, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 30 June 2006 10:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> A quick grep over the ChangeLogs is sometimes very helpful.
> >> 
> >>   Eeeewww!  If the hippos have grepped all over the ChangeLogs, *I'm* not
> >> cleaning it up!
> > 
> > This is TYPICAL man!  And who IS going to clean up afterwards?
> > 
> > 
> > Corinna
> 
>   This is TYPICAL woman!  You just *assumed* I /had/ to be assuming a woman
> should do it!

Read again.  You were just refusing to do it, so naturally somebody
else has to do it.  What's wrong with cleaning up yourself, huh?

> Why can't the hippos do it?  The hippos dropped it, the hippos
> can pick it up!

Did you bother to take a look at a hippo foot lately?  How, do you
think, should the poor, prehensily challenged hippos do that by
themselves?

>   Well, if the hippo won't clean up all that grep, maybe we can persuade the
> cat and the awk to scoop it up.  After all, what do we have computers for if
> not to do the work for us?

Hmm, well, I have to admit that this is a good idea.  It might
even go a bit quicker if we could get the lynx and ESPECIALLY
the man to help ;-)


Corinna


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