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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX <REPLACES> VMS and ULTRIX on new DEC product line
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.022041.20793@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 90 02:20:41 GMT
References: <29014@usc> <2777E87B.6392@tct.uucp> <29027@usc> <29029@usc> <18859@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <18859@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>BLISS is best
>known for its use of "." in address notation.  Just ask a BLISS-bigot
>to justify putting that "." in front of a variable name, then stand
>clear ;-)

I hardly qualify as a BLISS bigot, but I really don't see that
.FOO is any odder than *foo or foo^, eh?
-- 
               Hardware brevis, software longa
Melinda Shore                                 shore@mtxinu.com
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