[wplug-erie] Need Simple Program

Just Bill justbill at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 13:52:46 EST 2007


Not arguing whether it could be done in windows or linux, just stating my
personal preference.

On 1/12/07, Logan <ascii at psu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Thats the nice thing about open source.  You want somethig bad
> > enough, you'll become a programmer.
>
> wait, why's that nice, or about open source?
> The same could be said of Windows - if you want it badly enough,
> you'll make it yourself.
>
> I think he was hoping the nice thing about open source was that there
> were enough tools so that someone more knowledgeable than he could
> throw something together for him in a few minutes.
>
>
> I've never had to do anything with dial-up in Linux, or with per-user
> network access. So I can't throw anything together for you. Sorry.
>
> If you do have to learn to program, I recommend Perl, as there are
> easy ways of running system commands and the syntax makes a lot more
> sense than Bash.
>
> -Logan
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