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- From: phart@heineken.tuc.nrao.edu (Paul O. Hart)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.020019.23466@nrao.edu>
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- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- References: <1992Nov13.091914.6799@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <Bxo6sn.FtC@world.std.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:00:19 GMT
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- Quoted from apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) in <Bxo6sn.FtC@world.std.com>:
- ->Personally, I don't want a shell that thinks very much about what
- ->I might have meant.
- ->
- -> Tony apl@world.std.com
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- ->Lawrence & Clark, Inc (617) 762-0707 (206) 323-2864
- ->Xenix/Unix support,etc Boston Seattle
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- This IS the point. UNIX has always been a collection of tools
- which the user can put together in any way he/she deems fit. If
- the user would RTFM there would be no problem and they would get
- what they want. Don't like the way a shell does something ? Do
- something about it by writing a program or making a script. Stop
- whining !
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