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From: foster@CONVEX.COM (Harry Foster)
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Subject: Re: archives
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Date: 18 Apr 91 03:15:43 GMT
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wisner@ims.alaska.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:

> Have I mentioned lately that perl is divine?  I just spent five minutes
> whipping up a perl script to process the three megabyte archive file I had
> laying around (and I'm no perl expert).  The upshot of this is that the
> archives on hayes are now completely current.

Finally, a man after my own heart !  I say, "down with this archaic 'awk'" !
Don't be seduced by 'sed' !  It's time to perpetuate 'perl'.

Oh, sorry about getting carried away.  For a minute I thought I was reading 
                comp.unix.purist.and.KaTe.bush.fans     :)
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Harry Foster                                        foster@convex.com 
     "A man should be greater than some of his parts." -Peter DeVries