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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))
Message-ID: <14968@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 1 Dec 89 16:42:26 GMT
References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <5261@omepd.UUCP> <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> <1989Nov28.064349.1421@eda.com> <14961@bfmny0.UU.NET> <5294@omepd.UUCP> <1989Dec1.083526.23734@eda.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1989Dec1.083526.23734@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>Note:
>
>xargs is not a feature of UNIX. Period.
>
>It is a PROGRAM available on several versions of Unix derived from
>certain late model ATT versions of UNIX, and ported to some, but
>certainly not all, non-ATT versions of UNIX.

Good description of perl too, come to think of it! :-)

Now which tool's simpler...



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The real problem with SDI is     %/    Tom Neff
that it doesn't kill anybody.    /%    tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET


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