Thursday, February 7, 2002

France Upbraids U.S. Stance as 'Simplistic' In his remarks Wednesday, [French Foreign Minister] Mr. Vedrine said there were basic differences in the way France and the United States saw the world. France wants rules that applied to equally to everyone and where decisions were made in consultation with others, the foreign minister said, but the United States does not want to be encumbered by any international accords and intends to do what is in its best interest. "This is more clear than ever," Mr. Vedrine said. "It poses a serious problem." Mr. Vedrine asserted that Washington's single-minded drive to broaden the war was wrongheaded because it failed to consider the root of terrorism. [International Hearld Tribune] Colin Powell is quoted dismissing the growing dissatisfaction with US anti-terrorist policy--"This suggestion that you sometimes see in intellectual circles that the United States is acting unilaterally and not consulting with our European partners simply could not be further from the truth". How much longer will these type of denials stand? 4:23:23 AM

From the January Regular Expressions column: "curl is a tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP", as stated on its home page at http://curl.haxx.se/. More precisely, curl is a portable command-line executable for convenient Web retrieval, along with an associated library, libcurl. [Unix Review] Use it for everything...put it in steak.c and you have steak-curl.out! 3:12:49 AM

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