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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: 'the menagerie' <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Help Understanding Path Issue
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060630122739.GT18873@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c69c35$bd551f70$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <e7vd4o$js1$1@sea.gmane.org>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.GSO.4.63.0606291828560.590@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
2006-06-29 22:49     ` mwoehlke
2006-06-29 22:57       ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30  9:57         ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-06-30 10:16           ` Dave Korn
2006-06-30 11:03             ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-06-30 11:10               ` Dave Korn
2006-06-30 12:27                 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2006-06-30 15:58                   ` Eric Blake
2006-06-30 16:19                     ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30 16:17                   ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30 16:15                 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30 16:11             ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30 16:10           ` One Angry User
2006-06-30 16:25         ` mwoehlke
2006-06-30 16:29           ` Igor Peshansky
2006-06-30 21:32             ` mwoehlke

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