Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw
From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Command interfaces
Message-ID: <106600024@datacube>
Date: 22 Dec 87 15:31:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw    Dec 22 10:31:00 1987


aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writers:


> Well, in the days before I came to UNIX (using Whitesmith's on a PDP with
> RT-11, if I remember correctly), I used to do:

<code example deleted>

Gee, why didn't you use getflags() ?



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