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This sounds more like a problem with gluing a bunch of "stuff" together with shell scripts that are not well thought out than a problem with less or GNU in gene

by alayne 12y ago

This sounds more like a problem with gluing a bunch of "stuff" together with shell scripts that are not well thought out than a problem with less or GNU in general having untested features.

jschwartzi 12y ago
To be fair, the usefulness of a tool is often proportional to your power to also do really dumb things with it.
- lytedev 12y ago
  Haha! I really like this as a quote.
- Bjartr 12y ago
  See: hdparm Oh, looks like it's been updated, the man page no longer describes the -fwdownload flag as "HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN TO WORK and will probably destroy both the drive and all data on it"