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- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.103347.733@acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:33:47 GMT
- Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- References: <id.FN9S.OC8@ferranti.com> <1992Aug12.173328.7160@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <id.2PCS._X2@ferranti.com> <1992Aug17.185447.2408@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
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- spc@pineal.sci.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner) writes:
-
- > peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >
- > >spc@pineal.sci.fau.edu (Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner) writes:
- > >> -spc (Unix philosophy:
- > >> 1. Write cryptic and highly customizable code.
- > >
- > >Write simple code. Write small modules that hang together well. Write your
- > >code as generically as possible... one day you'll have to port it.
- >
- > And find is simple? dd is small? Gee, I'd like to have your Unix system
- > at work 8-) 8-) (add many many more if needed)
-
- All find does is apply a series of tests to all files in a given directory
- branch. And you even have to specify those tests as *whole words*. Sounds
- pretty simple to me.
-
- As for dd:
-
- $ ls -l /bin/dd
- -r-x--x--x 1 bin bin 9676 Wed Aug 5 20:41 /bin/dd
- $
-
- 10k sounds small enough to me.
-
- - k
- (using Coherent 3.2.1a)
- --
- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
- "Jub'f Xvob?"
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