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From: kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu (Nancy's Fiance)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Summary: Still More Pointless Silliness.
Keywords: pronunciation, editors, reporters, photographers, newspaper, `Woof!'
Message-ID: <20408@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 14:57:35 GMT
References: <21251@adm.BRL.MIL> <4282@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <1958@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Darren F. Provine)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Disclaimer: This article was typed by my dog Brandy, who used `rev'.


I've always understood `vi' to be an abbreviation for `vile', so I pronounce
it accordingly. . .


Anyway, in article <1958@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> cliff@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
	(Cliff Marcellus) writes:
>In article <4282@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, brtmac@hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu
>	(Brett McCoy) writes:
>> 
>>  Wizards do everything right the first time, hence the lack of need for
>>  any editor.  They do all of their file creation with cat(1V).
>
>  Gee.  Did Dennis Ritchie simply do a :
>
>  % cat > vmunix.c

Actually it was:

% cat > vmunix.s


kilroy@cs.umd.edu          Darren F. Provine          ...uunet!mimsy!kilroy
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