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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX(R) tools for MS-DOS (list)
Message-ID: <399@aucs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 08:01:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: aucs.399
Posted: Thu Jul 30 08:01:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 08:14:21 EDT
References: <1112@lznv.ATT.COM>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <1112@lznv.ATT.COM>, psc@lznv.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) says:
> 
> [stuff about unix tools]
>
> Comments:  A friend of mine just ordered from them.  He said they 
> sounded like sterotypical, "Great White North" Canadians.  He also said 

That comment sounds like something from a stereotypical American. I've
been to the States and when I tell someone I'm from Canada, I get some
quite amazing replies. For example:

"Is dog-sledding popular up there?"

I said only up in Alaska

"Do you guys have any summer up there?"

Despite the rumors, we do...

"Where's Canada?"

Its hard to believe, but he didn't know...

> paper mail, and email!  Final note:  how come we Americans can't sell 
> those nasty furriners *any* encryption software, but these Canadians 
> can sell us crypt(1)?  (Flames to /dev/null, *please*!) 

That's because the Americans are so paranoid about the Russians stealing
technology from them that they won't sell encyption software to any
"furriners". Canadians aren't that paranoid I guess...

I think in the future, racial slurs about your good neigbours to the
north (even in jest), should be avoided. Let's face it, if you do,
you're bound to get flamed.

BTW, we use computers up here, although its hard to keep them
warm in our igloos :-) !

'Nuff said