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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Why no job control in 386/ix?
Summary: Another item on the wish list
Message-ID: <124@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 04:35:53 GMT
References: <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <1989Nov19.180741.8950@tolerant.com>
Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
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In article <1989Nov19.180741.8950@tolerant.com> leach@tolerant.com (Geoffrey Leach) writes:
    I once complained about the absence of '-r' on the System V cp command
    and was told, in efect, that in that context, '-r' was an offence against
    Decency and the Natural Order of Things.

As long as we are offending nature how about getting really kinky and asking
for a
	chmod user.group file ...
such as I do on my BSDish sun at work all the time.  I know the litany...
wait for V.4... wait for V.4...

// marc
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// Marco S. Hyman		{ames,pyramid,sun}!pacbell!dumbcat!marc