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From: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and UNIX in AmigaWorld 68030
Keywords: UNIX CBM 68030 "gangly"
Message-ID: <205@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Dec 89 21:25:09 GMT
References: <2318@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <38689@lanl.gov> <38703@lanl.gov> <203@amix.commodore.com>
Reply-To: ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Amix Development
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I was asleep when I posted this article, so I forgot to add some
footnotes.  Lemme see if I can cover my tracks.

In article <203@amix.commodore.com> I (Keith Gabryelski) write:
>In article <38703@lanl.gov> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>>Want to SET some terminal bit or password or file attribute etc etc.
>>(USe 14 different unix commands, none of which are in the index of the
>>local UNIX maual)
>
>They are in the index.  You are not looking in the right place
>(because you probably don't know [*] that setting terminal bits is
>stty(1) and file atributes is chmod(1), chown(1), chgrp(1)).  This is
>the same problem as above.  Now, passwd(1), is just obvious :-).

The [*] was meant to be a footnote in that I wasn't actually meaning
to say that you, Mr. Farish, were totally to blame.  The index in AT&T
manuals does leave something to be desired.  This has changed with
SysVR4, though.

>The fact that there are lots of little commands to do little things is
>part of the unix paradigm which, IMHO, is A Good Thing(Tm).
>
> find . -name '*.[ch]' -print | xargs egrep '^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*\('

I meant to mention hear that I don't consider find(1) to be true Unix
anymore.  It has a -cpio option; something I just can't live with.
`cat -v' didn't make it onto my top ten list either.

Pax, Keith
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ag@amix.commodore.com        Keith Gabryelski          ...!cbmvax!amix!ag