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Bob, Exactly right! I'm MIT XXI '65. How 'bout you? Harry On Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:37:54 -1000, Bob Newell wrote: > > harrybinswanger <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Here's my and Claude's version of Bob Newell's bash shell script. The > > point of it is to allow you to get any new content in > > xyscript-default.cfg without losing your customizations. > > This is quite impressive and is more accurate in preserving > user-made changes while not losing new material present in an > update. It's obviously much improved over my first effort and > even includes decent error checking, something I tend to > shortcut. > > But--- as an MIT alum I can say this--- it reminds me of an > old joke we had there back in the day. That was the time of > IBM mainframe dominance. The MVS operating system was > replacing the DOS operating system (that's mainframe DOS which > had nothing at all to do with PC DOS, which was years away). > > What kind of operating system do you get when you have one MIT > student work for one year? DOS. > > What kind of operating system do you get when you have ten MIT > students work for ten years? MVS. It does the same thing but > it's a hundred times more complicated. > > Of course in this case the new script does a lot more and does > it better, so thanks Harry for taking things forward and > publishing! > > With aloha from Hawai`i nei, > > -- > Bob Newell > Honolulu, Hawai`i > > - Via GNU-Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB |