[138] in Zephyr_Comments
proposal for a new feature in zwgc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Lillibridge)
Mon Nov 7 21:02:51 1988
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 88 21:02:20 EST
From: Mark Lillibridge <chariot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Mark W. Eichin's message of Mon, 7 Nov 88 20:38:37 EST <8811080138.AA01318@STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: chariot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> If people are using zfwrite, then they have access to the technical
> skill to use a zephyr variable. ZFWRITE is wizard level, ZCTL SET is
> *NOT*... Why don't you have everyone with zfwrite in their homedir
> (your friends...) replace it with instructions to use zctl set???
Sigh. This misses the point. Some set of people are
sufficently well informed by their friends whether it be by being given
zfwrite or being told about zctl set zwrite-signature to be able to do
"wizard-level" zephyr stuff. The point is what about the OTHER 3980
people who don't have friends that know all the internals of zephyr?
They just lose quietly. (People do NOT read manual pages, particularly,
for things like zwrite which they "know how to use")
In any case, the people using zfwrite may in some cases be my
friends but they did not get zfwrite from me. Frankly, the use of
zfwrite annoys me because it prevents my hack from working. However,
telling them to use zwrite-signature will not work (at least for this
release) because it is broken. (I tried this once. The response was
"Yuck! zfwrite is so much nicer.")
- Mark
