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From: akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How wrong is MS-DOS? (or: What is the definition of obsolete)
Message-ID: <1038@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp>
Date: 12 Jan 91 04:20:18 GMT
References: <3120@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11143@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: akira@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
Organization: ATSON, Inc.
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     I know I have less experience than most particepants...

In article <11143@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>In <3120@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):
>> In article <11123@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>>> [... grep is trivial ...]
>>   So your job doesn't involve data analysis, or you have other tools.
>Other tools.  As I said, the problem with grep is that what it does
>is too trivial to deserve to be a separate tool.  I needs to be a
>built-in capability of editors, database managers, etc..

     `Integrated' DOS softwares tends to be too complicated with `catalog'
features that most people never use (and sometimes lack important features).
Mr. Giles complains about editors and database managers not built in, but
in fact they ARE built in the operating system in UNIX's way.  Think UNIX
as one `integrated DOS software'.  Not much difference.  And UNIX provides
more :-) features.  Mr. Giles doesn't like THE WAY they are integrated,
and I won't say anything about it;  that's a personal taste.
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