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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Cmail - check to see who's read their mail - UNIX
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Date: 24 Oct 89 19:10:16 GMT
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In article <13034@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Yes and look at the godawful mess of AT&T "face", or any other vendor
>written shell scripts for that matter.

FACE is not a shell script, it is a monstrous overblown executable that
interprets a blizzard of little twisty files, all different, to create
a kludgy, elephantine windowing interface.  Caveat lex luthor.
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 as an adjective." -- AT&T   ::    ...uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP only)