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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 12:12:04 GMT
References: <1083@venus.misemi> <183@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Reply-To: doug@jhunix.UUCP (Douglas W O'neal)
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In article <183@nems.dt.navy.mil> curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
*From all the postings, you see that there are many alternatives
*to rn.  You must understand that for a "typical" Unix user (a
*programmer), ...
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*The office I work in supports 7 Unix systems that are used for "office
*automation".  Most of our 1000 users don't even know what Unix is, let
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*alone understand concepts like "standard input", "processes", and
*"pipes".
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*Curt Welch
*curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil

Does it seem a little strange to you that a typical (i.e, one of the majority)
UNIX user is a programmer who does not know what his/her operating system is?
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Doug O'Neal                  Distributed Systems Programmer
Homewood Academic Computing  doug@jhuvms.bitnet
Johns Hopkins University     mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug