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Article #410Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
From: Ed Hall
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:49
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:49
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In article <1992Apr16.204427.1546@cello.hpl.hp.com> renglish@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bob English) writes: >> In article <1992Apr3.190000.23149@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes: >>> [ sendmail.cf is too complicated ] >chris@alderan.sdata.de (Christoph Splittgerber) responds: >> . . . . From my point of view, sendmail is a complex, powerful tool and >> therefor it seems very natural that it's configuration is complex too. > . . . . I really doubt that sendmail.cf is more complex and >powerful than most of the standard Unix filters. I know it's more >cryptic and difficult to understand. It occurs to me that if the authors of sendmail were confronted with the same problems today, they could have written a PERL script instead of inventing a whole new string-mashing system, and added a few simple utitities for spooling and transmission. PERL is the Swiss Army knife of UNIX filters. (This isn't intended entirely as a complement...) -Ed Hall edhall@rand.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!randvax!edhall From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.misc,comp.unix.msdos,comp.unix.admin,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today! Message-ID: <3378@pacificrand.org> Date: 16 Apr 92 21:49:25 GMT References: <1195@alderan.sdata.de> <1992Apr16.204427.1546@cello.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@pacificrand.org Organization: The RAND Corporation Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: ives.rand.org