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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Message-ID: <3136@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 20:07:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan13.113349.21937@ims.alaska.edu> <11305@lanl.gov> <1991Jan14.013815.11419@ims.alaska.edu> <1991Jan18.163230.11695@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Jan18.163230.11695@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> xxremak@csduts1.UUCP (David A. Remaklus) writes:

|                               The 'fact is', the ls command is a
| tool that does one basic funtion, provide a formatted listing of information
| about a specified list of files.

And ls is a tool with built-in sort so you don't have to pipe the output
of list through sort anymore ;-)
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  A system without MS-DOS compatibility is like a rock without mayonnaise