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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Cmail - check to see who's read their mail - UNIX
Message-ID: <13048@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 22:39:45 GMT
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tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:

|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.

True. But face isn't just an executable. It calls up a whole mess of twisty
shell scripts, all different. If, God Help You, you want to do things by
hand or write your own programs, you get to hunt in these shell scripts
because nowhere else is documented how they do certain things.

Sean
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