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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Command line arguements?
Summary: Please move this out of the Fortran newsgroup
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.183245.605@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 2 Jun 91 18:32:45 GMT
References: <1991May31.234623.7735@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <24885@lanl.gov>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <24885@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>> Repeatedly whining on Usenet is also unprofessional, but that doesn't
>> stop you. Try alt.religion.computers if you would like to dispute the
>> philosophy behind the Unix shell.
>
>Then you should stop repeatedly whining.  The only people whining on
>this issue are those who refuse to respond to a legitimate request for
>functionality in a rational way.  Telling someone who has a legitimate
>request for specific and useful functionality to post his request to
>alt.religion.computers is also whining.

Your postings have nothing to do with Fortran.  Whether your complaints
about Unix are valid or not belongs in another news group.  Please do
not waste bandwidth by posting complaints about operating systems to a
language-specific newsgroup.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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