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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <390@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 09:49:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 09:49:05 1987
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Reply-To: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
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In article <407@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>        ....                      It is trivial to add a library script
> that 'removes' files by renaming them; why don't we do it?  It is trivial
> to say "ln /bin/cat /bin/type"; why don't we do it?

I dunno, but with the System V.[23] bourne shell, you can't even do that
because "type" is builtin (it tells where on your path a command is, or
if it's a shell function).  My other "favorite" poor design choice is
"dump" in the System V.3 sgs (software generation system, ie, C compiler)
which dumps out the object file into readable form, not what the operator
does at night.  Sigh.....
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