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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk arguments
Message-ID: <864@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 90 13:07:50 GMT
References: <9413@goofy.Apple.COM> <13424@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <13424@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
[....]
:	(1) Install the new version of "foo" as "nfoo";
:	    link "foo" to "ofoo".
:	(2) Users now have time to investigate what changes if any
:	    their applications need to work with "nfoo".  If they
:	    don't have time to deal with it, they should change to
:	    using "ofoo" instead of "foo".  If something is newly
:	    developed that depends on features present only in the
:	    new version, it should invoke "nfoo".
:	(3) Considerably later, "nfoo" is linked to "foo", replacing
:	    the previous "foo" link.  "ofoo" remains installed.  Note
:	    that all applications continue to work at this point.
:	(4) Everyone is encouraged to finish converting from "ofoo"
:	    to the new version of "foo", and to just use the name
:	    "foo" instead of "nfoo".
:	(5) Considerably later, "ofoo" and "nfoo" are removed/

Does anybody know a way how we could print this in VERY LARGE LETTERS
and make sure that a copy is pinned to the wall near every terminal,
where someone is working on `improvements' of unix tools or commands?
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83