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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stupid unix questions
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Date: 2 May 90 05:50:52 GMT
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In article <5111@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> doug@jhuvms.bitnet (Douglas W. O'Neal) writes:
>Forgot one. Most of the times I have seen ed used, it has been interactive 
>(usually to make a quick change to a file).  Would Mr. Ullman like this 
>capability taken away to make it more pure?

I suppose that's your contribution to the list of stupid UNIX questions.
Or did you really not understand a word that he was saying?