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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: named pipes and .plan
Message-ID: <24407:Sep2803:44:4590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 03:44:45 GMT
References: <5932@ge-dab.GE.COM> <2884@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <2884@idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
> Somebody just posted an 100+ line program that does much the same thing as
> this (unless I'm missing something really obvious):
  [ shell script deleted ]
> Now what am I missing??? Why does this have to be so complicated????

Error checking, a couple of extra features, and no wasted execs. If you
don't want to check errors, write code for Berkeley. :-)

---Dan