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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
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Subject: Re: patch (!) to 14-Sep-1989 C News patch
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Date: 17 Sep 89 17:37:52 GMT
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In article <1989Sep16.225749.23376@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
	   writes:
>Sigh.  Sometimes life would be a whole lot simpler if patch didn't try
>to be "smart", or at least if there were a way to tell it to stop thinking
>and follow orders because we know what we're doing dammit...

Well Henry, if you don't like it, write something better.  I happen to LIKE
patch, and am quite happy that Larry Wall has let us mere mortals have access
to it.

There is nothing "forcing" you to use patch.  Try and develop a better way
however, that most everyone can use. 1/2 :-)

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM