This does not necessarily deserve to be imitated, but it is an experience that definitely stood out in my memory in how unusual it was: the dsmc backup utility.

This does not necessarily deserve to be imitated, but it is an experience that definitely stood out in my memory in how unusual it was: the dsmc backup utility. The tool boggled me enough at the time that I wrote about it on my weblog: https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~guenther/unix-tools-for-real-men.html https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~guenther/unix-tools-for-real-...