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From: kyle@UUNET.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
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Date: 18 Feb 91 06:03:43 GMT
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Kee Hinckley writes:
 > It's clearly time to create alt.sources.showoff for people to post
 > unneeded solutions to already solved problems.

David C Lawrence writes:
 > Speak for your own needs, bub.  reverse-region solved a problem for me
 > that the other solutions did not.  In my environment, it is much more
 > useful to me than any of the other reversal schemes I have seen as
 > part of this thread.

Amen.  The solution I posted was something I gave to a friend and
coworker around five years ago, on a system where there was no
Icon or Perl or tac.  Such systems still exist.  There's always
more than one way to solve a problem.  And since not everyone has
access to the same tools, this is fortunate.