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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: command line argument help
  5. Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 01:13:52 GMT
  6. Organization: none
  7. Message-ID: <822964432snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <4edfth$ok@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA> <4egi4nINNncr@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <DLwuBr.7JG@emr1.emr.ca> <DLxD48.JnB@iglou.com>
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  13.  
  14. In article <DLxD48.JnB@iglou.com> bmarcum@iglou.iglou.com "Bill Marcum" writes:
  15.  
  16. >In article <DLwuBr.7JG@emr1.emr.ca>, John Grant <jagrant@emr1.emr.ca> wrote:
  17. >>In article <4egi4nINNncr@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
  18. > (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
  19. >>>In article <4edfth$ok@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>,  <shadowfax> wrote:
  20. >>> >
  21. >>> >c:\> sum 6 3
  22. >>>
  23. >>>Get a decent shell that can do arithmetic.
  24. >>>
  25. >>>      echo $((6 + 3))
  26. >>
  27. >>       You idiot. How does an answer like that help this guy to learn
  28. >>       how to write C programs?  It's not the application he wants - it's
  29. >>       help with C.  You damn unix bigots are all the same.
  30. >
  31. >The original question was inexplicably cross-posted to comp.unix.shell, 
  32.  
  33. No it wasn't, only Kazimir's reply was. This form of auto-justification
  34. doesn't rub! :-)
  35.  
  36. >making it fair game for "Unix bigots".
  37.  
  38. Kazimir's reply was decidedly inappropriate and unhelpful.
  39.  
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  42. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  43. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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