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WIdgeteye <> wrote:

>On Tue, 30 May 2006 16:15:44 +1000, John McMonagle wrote:
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>> Tim Roberts is right. As you are on linux, I suggest you investigate the
>> at command - very user friendly and not at all complicated.
>
>I have been using Slackware for over 10 years I know all about the
>commands on the OS.
>
>If you guys don't have an answer to the question just say so. But don't
>give me suggestions on how to use an OS I have been using most likely
>longer than 90% of the people using linux today.
>
>This is the comp.lang.python news group not the linux news group. If I
>didn't want to write the Python code and I wanted to use the OS commands
>instead I would.

Utter nonsense. If someone posted on comp.lang.python that they wanted to
know how to write a DMA-based PCI driver in Python, I am sure as heck going
to tell them that there are better tools for the job and better newsgroups
for the question.

>Python is cross platform. Linux is not. I intend to release the software
>to the general public someday when it is done. I want it cross platform.

Windows also has an "at" command.

However, you are not going to be able to write a television-based
application that is cross platform. The video tools are just too
different.

>BTW in the time it took me NOT to get an answer for my question in this so
>called Python NG, I figured it out for myself.

That's almost always the case with newsgroups. They are NOT a real-time
medium.

>This PYTHON NG blows to high heaven. Whats worse, the answers I got were
>most likely from people who know SQUAT about Python scripting. That's why
>they gave me such lame ****ing answers.

We did not give you "lame ****ing answers". We gave you solutions to the
problem you posed. If the problem statement wasn't clear enough, that
isn't our fault.

>Idiots.

It takes one to know one.
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- Tim Roberts,
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.