[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:00:33PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 29 May 2011, general spake thusly:
> 
> > On 29/05/11 18:35, Nix wrote:
> >> On 29 May 2011, general outgrape:
> >>> Not wanting to tempt fate but I use rsync on different machines every
> >>> single day and have managed to do so for some time without confusing
> >>> source and destination... it's source first, destination second. The
> >>> convention couldn't be better established,
> >> strcpy(), memcpy() et al do it the other way around :/
> >
> > Well nobody ever said C was intuitive, well nobody who was correct
> > anyway. Sensible modern languages tend to do it the other way ;)
> 
> Yeah, but a lot of Unix people are C people as well. This leads to the
> bizarre occurrence that the *more* experienced someone is, the more
> likely he is to mess up the argument order of one of these commands.
> (My personal bete noire is ln(1). I always get it backwards except when
> I don't.)

Anyone remember CP/M PIP?  That used destination=source.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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