Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1e.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihu1e!nowlin
From: nowlin@ihu1e.UUCP (Jerry Nowlin)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: << question
Message-ID: <304@ihu1e.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 13:53:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihu1e.304
Posted: Mon Aug 27 13:53:58 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Aug-84 00:51:38 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
Lines: 26

.

To all those who thought I shouldn't have posted my rather pointed reply to  a
pseudo  helpful  article in net.sources back to that group I can only give one
excuse.  The original article bore no resemblance  to  a  source,  and  in  my
opinion wouldn't have been much help.  I'm not losing any sleep.  As to my use
of 7 letter words, I call em as I see em.  I almost took that first  paragraph
out  but  since all the disgust that made me respond in the first place was in
that section I decided to let it stand.

I was amazed at the number of people  who  misunderstood  the  intent  of  the
posting.  If I wanted to chastise an individual I'd do it with mail.  I wanted
to state that I was fed up with so called experts  that  are  too  jealous  of
their  knowledge  to  share  it  with  people who need help.  I don't know the
person who posted that article personally so I can't actually  say  he's  like
this.  From his article he sounded like it and that's all I said.

I didn't post the original article in this saga.  I know about << and lots  of
other  "arcane"  UNIX  things.   The  problem  is  you can't look up << in the
permuted index.  The same goes for  >>,  |,  &,  and  lots  of  other  obscure
combinations.  While we're on the subject, where should questions like the one
that  prompted  this  discussion  be  posted?    Is   there   a   group   like
net.unix.arcane?

Jerry Nowlin
ihnp4!ihu1e!nowlin