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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:05:27 GMT
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From the keyboard of oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit):
:In article <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> (Dan Bernstein) burps:
:>In article <21548@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
:>> To rephrase: ... you are using poor programming techniques. No program
:>> should make multiple passes over a disk file when it could accomplish its
:>> task with a single pass with hardly any effort on the programmer's part.
:>
:>If you spent a minute putting your priorities into order you'd realize
:>that this is an entirely ridiculous generalization.
:
:Well, I am sure you would know about ridiculous generalizations. Those
:were your own words plus a trivial meaning-preserving transformation.
:
:keep up the cyclically self-disputing silliness.

Well, that's what you get when you trade postings with Dan.  It's
like playing patty cake with a schizoid King Kong.

--tom
--
"Still waiting to read alt.fan.dan-bernstein using DBWM, Dan's own AI
window manager, which argues with you 10 weeks before resizing your window." 
### And now for the question of the month:  How do you spell relief?   Answer:
U=brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu; echo "/From: $U/h:j" >>~/News/KILL; expire -f $U