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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stupid man pages
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Date: 7 Jun 90 17:04:08 GMT
References: <2281@ariel.unm.edu> <1831@pyrltd.UUCP> <618@modus.sublink.ORG> <1990Apr22.083636.9250@lsuc.on.ca> <8591@goofy.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <8591@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
> Have any marketing types tried to do anything to take daemonology out
> of the system?  I imagine there may be countries that would not accept
> Unix because they don't like invoking daemons.

That's OK. Users don't generally invoke daemons. Daemons are usually
invoked by other daemons, all the way back to init. Just don't sign
anything in blood, and watch out for mode 666 files.
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