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From: roe@sobmips.UUCP (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl may be great, but... (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.030236.24784@sobmips.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 03:02:36 GMT
References: <5309@omepd.UUCP>
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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From article <5309@omepd.UUCP>, by merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz):
> 
> V7 did *not* have cut and paste! [ ... ]
> If you had it on your V7 box, you weren't running out-of-the-box V7.
> 
Maybe not.  But, they were in the V7 distribution we ported in 1976.  IMHO,
anything that has been available in non-bsd distribution for 13 years
should be part of *all* unix distributions. 
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