Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!ames!mindcraft.com!ronnie From: ronnie@mindcraft.com (Ronnie Kon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Is it "grep' Message-ID: <663281329.23452@mindcraft.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 20:48:48 GMT References: <5638@discg1> <1991Jan05.191552.31649@eve.wright.edu> Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 22 In article <1991Jan05.191552.31649@eve.wright.edu> spotter@eve.wright.edu (Sh'r'ldana) writes: >In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >> >>Well, my unabridged word list reveals "aggry", "ahungry", "anhungry" >>and "unangry" but you can decide how many of those qualify as "words". >> >Aggry is not in my dictionary, so it doesn't count. Ahungry, anhungry, and >unangry are all derivatives of hungry and angry, so they don't count. > This topic really had precious little to do with UNIX internals in the first place, and has degenerated down to something not even remotely connected. If people are really concerned about words ending in "gry," rec.puzzles seems a much more appropriate forum. Questions about how a command works ought to receive responses of RTFM and be left at that. Ronnie -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronnie B. Kon | "I don't know about your brain, but kon@groundfog.stanford.edu | mine is really bossy." ...!{decwrl,ames}!mindcrf!ronnie | -- Laurie Anderson