Re: history+readline+ncurses

In article <12srvjl4eli9998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Walter Roberson <roberson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As you started by replying to me, commenting on my choice of the phrase
"system-specific", the implication is that I was rude and did
not provide useful information on where to go. If, however, you
check back to the thread the OP started a day earlier, you will find

That's a different thread. You're implying that you're polite on occasion.
(your followups are a different matter)

Closer would be that I can be -impolite- on occasion; I am, after all,
only human. In this thread, I was not impolite; I was merely terse.

Posting the same question a day later without having learned anything
from the prior (valid) responses: some people would consider that
to be impolite.
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"law -- it's a commodity"
-- Andrew Ryan (The Globe and Mail, 2005/11/26)
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