Tube source code (was: "The Tube" by David Alan Halls)

[Massimo Dentico]

Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> 
> >   Tube/src/aux.c
> >   Tube/src/aux.h
> >
> > freeze both WinZip and PowerArchiver (Windows
> > platform, of course). Decompressing the rest
> > seems ok.
> Note that a .tgz doesn't compress files individually:
> it first makes an archive then compresses the whole archive.
> You must be doing something wrong.
> I suspect this wrong thing is: not using a half-decent OS.
> 
> [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
> [  TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System  | http://tunes.org  ]
> There cannot be Ethics without Models of possible behaviors,
> and Imagination to explore them.
>                 -- Faré

I have decompressed tens of .tgz with WinZip without problems.

It gunzip first, then it asks if you want to see the .tar file content.
In this case you can untar whatever file you want, *individually*.
In fact selecting all files except the 2 aux.* files, I'm able to untar
the file.

So, the OS seems pertinent with the problem at hand as, we say in Italy,
"a cabbage for snack" (un cavolo a merenda). :-)

IMHO, at the moment, there isn't an half-decent "OS"(*) on the planet
(besides Tunes, of course .. unfortunately rumors give it still as
vaporware :-). The choice is between indecent OSes. I'm not masochist,
so I try to avoid this strange truly painful activity known as "Unix
administration".

On a dedicated server, with few programs which serve a specific task,
with an ultra-lean installation is possible to avoid the great
part of administration problems. But on a general purpose workstation
is not so and these "entertaining" window managers don't solve the problem.

(*) I immensely prefer your cybernetical OS definition, "common background",
    wrt the classical: a program that take over the entire machine,
    wastes resources and get in the way the poor user.

Bets regards.

-- 
Massimo Dentico