Re: Re: skinning a cat

Robert Cummings wrote: > You originally said it was overkill to use my lock class and then went > on to show your shell script doing similar. To which I then responded > try running the shell script in windows. To which you've now suggested > installing cygwin. Well, no I haven't, but feel free to think so. > Thus you have suggested a shell script and cygwin to accomplish what a > simple lock class easily achieves in both linux and windows. OK, if you want to debate this - you take a relatively complex solution which is intended for 1% of your customers, and apply it to the other 99% which could have done with a much simpler solution. That's more overkill, IMHO. /Per Jessen, Zürich