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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: Giles' Manual Mania (Was - Re: About the 'F' in RTFM)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.220335.29016@netlabs.com>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 22:03:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.020832.23988@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Aug27.192610.12441@wixer.cactus.org> <id.XBRS.HAD@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.XBRS.HAD@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug27.192610.12441@wixer.cactus.org> rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
- : > But they are. sed, awk, perl, tr, pr, nroff, troff, ls, tbl, pic, eqn,
- : > rm, and all the other programs in my /[usr/]bin perform completely correctly
- : > and predictably when placed in pipes.
- :
- : They do? You got rid of the undocumented line length limitations?
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- Hey! I feel lumped.
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- Larry Wall
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