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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: I'm learning UNIX and I have a simple question
Message-ID: <16503@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Jun 91 20:33:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.144113.22326@mtune.att.com> <16486@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jun22.195705.3287@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun22.195705.3287@leland.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>And besides, what does who have to do with formatting anyway? 

Yes, that's a proper designer's perspective.  The user, though, is
normally just as happy to use the extra option as to use any other
solution.  Around here we find a lot of one-line shell scripts in
people's personal command directories, often supplied to them by
somebody else, none of which know how the command actually works.