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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
- In-Reply-To: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:53:24 GMT
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- References: <Bt0EEL.H1q@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Aug19.130558.8488@news.eng.convex.com>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:17:30 GMT
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- Alan> == Alan Harder <ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com>
-
- Alan> Maybe this thread belongs on alt.talk.religion. Believe me, many
- Alan> people out there think we're *all* crazy for working with *unix*
- Alan> boxes. This problem would obviously be easier to solve in cobol
- Alan> on an AS400 machine ;-).
-
- On one occasion, before I learned perl, I had to reformat a data file
- (turns out the stats program had to have spaces between each number, but
- we didn't know that when we entered the data :-). Since it was on an
- IBM mainframe, we didn't have perl, I couldn't figure out a quick way to
- do it with XEDIT, and I couldn't ftp it to a UNIX account because I
- didn't have one then.
-
- So I wrote a COBOL program to read in an 80-character line and copy it
- to a 160-character line (with interspersed spaces). It was a brutal,
- ugly hack, but it saved a hell of a lot of time.
-
- I'm glad I have perl now :-)
- --
- Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
- Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
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