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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.174927.3736@world.std.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 17:49:27 GMT
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In article <227@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes:
|Wizard implies "knows all" [...]

Actually the definition I'm most comfortable with is:

"A Wizard is someone who can do something that you don't know how to do."

I believe you will find that this is appropriate in most contexts.

|4	They have a copy of either the BSD or System V "Implimentation of
|	the Unix operating system."
|5	All the above books have pages that are starting to bio-degrade
|	from age.

Given that the BSD book isn't very old, I kind of doubt it.  Worn,
maybe, but not degrading :-).

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com