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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:24:34 MDT
- From: gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton)
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
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- Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
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- boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
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- >> the moronic idea of naming a command
- >> after its programmers and not finding a mnemonic to indicate its use
- > Yeah right, we've just gotta find new names for ken(1) and dmr(1).
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- I believe he was referring to awk(1). I forget who "a" and "w" are,
- but "k" is Brian Kernighan of "K & R" fame.
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- James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim
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