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From: ceilidh!dnichols@uunet.uu.net (DoN Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Is it "grep'
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Date: 9 Jan 91 05:55:11 GMT
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"m.yamin says:"

	[Interesting info about 'gry' deleted]

> I suspect that most readers of this newsgroup don't care a gry
> about all this and might "gry, With threatfull sound" as in the
> 1594 citation, if this comes up again.  And people who don't know
> how to use "grep", which is what started this nonsense, should,
> as has been suggested, RTFM.

	Well, yes --- BUT not everyone who has a computer with "grep" HAS a
copy of TFM.  (Those who got the AT&T Unix-PC with just the foundation set
and no development set have NO documentation on how to use the utilities
which come with their machine.  If they are poking around the menus and
point to a text file and click the mouse, they get dumped into ED, and there
isn't a hint of documentation for ED anywhere in the foundation set
manuals.  (They seem to have assumed that everyone was going to stay with
applications which knew how to work with the objects pointed to, rather than
work at the shell command line.)

	Of course, there is the question of what is such a user doing
posting to THIS group.  He'd probably get RTFM'ed even in 'unix-pc.general'
:-)

	Thank goodness that AT&T supplied reasonable unix documentation with
the development set - and of course no one I know would want to use the
machine without the devloment set - AND a large helping of net goodies.

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