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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to Deal with Obscure Problems on UNIX
Message-ID: <16694:Nov1421:44:4790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 21:44:47 GMT
References: <85864@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <7220:Nov1408:26:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <27680@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In article <27680@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> Hmm.  If `vi -A' told you that vi was written by Ken Thompson, Brian
> Kernighan, Bill Joy, Mark Horton, Jim Bloom, Keith Bostic, Mike Karels,
> Ralph <lastnameforgotten>, Conrad Huang, Kirk McKusick, Sam Leffler,
> Bill Jolitz, Peter <someone>, and a few others, who would you ask about
> `Internal error: vclreol'?

The implication was that foo -A would also show a current address for
the most recent author, or at least someone coordinating upgrades and
fixes. (Then again, it's not clear that you folks want to hear from
users.)

---Dan