Re: hosers-talk: what the fucking fuck

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> is wrong with goddamn fucking unix programmers?
> 
> I just want a fucking .zip archive of a fucking directory. Is that so
> fucking tough to do? Can't I just say "gzip directory"? Fucking no,
> fucking gzip only fucking works on fucking _files_. Well, fine, you
> fucking orthogonal programming fucking bastards, I'll fucking tar up the
> directory and then gzip that. Fine, I'll fucking play your little elitist
> game of fuck the user over when he fucking wants to do something trivially
> easy. So, fuck, tar -c directory, like it fucking says in the fucking
> ancient man page for the most obsolete of fucking unix programs. And what
> fucking happens? Fucking screen gets full up with shit and unprintables
> and fucking bell characters so my little fucking ssh client starts fucking
> beeping at me because I obviously am unworthy of using fucking tar --
> fucking tar! -- correctly and therefore fucking deserve shit on my screen
> and fucking bell characters in my fucking speakers. I bet even fucking
> OpenVMS could fucking archive a directory fucking easily; and, oh wait,
> maybe that's why people fucking switch over to fucking Windows NT because
> fucking VMS was always fucking better at getting shit done. Fucking fuck
> fuck.
> 
>

BTW, if what you really want is a .zip (not a .tar.gz), use zip (1) instead.


-- 
J.