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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What constitutes a good OS?
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.202503.3975@kithrup.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:25:03 GMT
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>The mouse is clearly record oriented, in that reading
>half a `record' tells you nothing.

Incidently, I once *did* have a use for reading 'half records' from a mouse;
I did this via awk, and it fit very nicely in with the rest of my "program"
(a pipeline).

In unix, "records" are consensual hallucinations.  And, frankly, this is how
most of us want them.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.