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- From: tlg@uknet.ac.uk (Tim.Goodwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Where does the sugar go? (was Re: Sort problem )
- Message-ID: <1253@uknet.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 09:41:57 GMT
- References: <33pmg <1992Jul31.000822.13317@convex.com> <84902@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <84902@netnews.upenn.edu> chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz) writes:
- >I agree, but I often wonder what to do with the output "sugar", such
- >as prompts or headers, which are not well suited for filtering.
- >...
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- UNIX is (was) a diet OS. Sugar free.
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- I fume every time I want to say
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- sccs delget `sccs info`
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- but can't. This "sugar" is bitter to my taste.
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- Pragmatically, why not turn on the sugar with a command line flag?
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- Tim.
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