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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: file attributes
Message-ID: <BZS.91Jun24235216@world.std.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 04:52:16 GMT
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Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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In-Reply-To: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com's message of 25 Jun 91 01: 29:50 GMT


But what scares me about environment variables for files is the
prospect of the day I see a user type:

	grep foo < 'LRECL=80,RECFM=V,DISP=(OLD,KEEP,DELETE),DSN=data'

then I shall know that we are done.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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