RE: maintaining bash

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: David Dindorp
>Sent: 08 April 2005 16:14

>>> If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in
>>> a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong.
>> 
>>   http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST
> 
> Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have.
> Duh ;-).

  There's nothing _obvious_ about that at all.  It would be a false
inference on my part to try and deduce that, because you have not PPASTed
before, you would necessarily be unable to do so in the future.[*]

  Furthermore, it seems to me that if you have some manhours to spend, but
not the lifetimes you feel it would require to get to grips with debugging
the problem at a deep level, then spending those hours trying to create a
simple testcase might be the most productive use you could put them to.

    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] Cf. "Problem of induction, The" and indeed 
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bertrand+russell+inductivist+turkey&sourcei
d=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.
mozilla:en-US:official
(I feel the second entry, from swin.edu.au, tells it best)
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