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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:37:44 GMT
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- >It does not
- >use an external database because no matter how many little fobs and
- >bells you allow in such a specification there will always be something
- >it can't describe that you want it to.
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- Are you saying, then, something that amounts to "a Perl script can't run
- another Perl script"? I.e., the "external database" can't just be
- another Perl script?
-