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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3
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Date: 12 Jan 91 00:42:24 GMT
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In article <14818@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Of course the actual bug is that "who" has no business being designed
>this way.  If you want columnation, it is trivial (who|6, for example),
>as is a user count (who|wc).  Building such functionality into the
>"who" command is so much against UNIX design principles that I have to
>wonder who could have approved such features.

The same guy who approved turning ls into the feeping creature that it is
today, of course...and other stuff, as well.
(Why does Berzerkeley ls have to act the way it does? Yuk. Having to say ls
if the destination is a terminal, but ls -C if I want to pipe into, say,
is nonintuitive at best.)

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Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
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