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From: roeber@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber)
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Subject: cron matchings
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Date: 14 Oct 90 18:42:45 GMT
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(parenthetical remark about recent cron postings:  Why does cron use such a
non-standard matching system anyway?  Why not just have regular expressions
of the usual sort that are compared to asctime() -style times?)

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