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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Picking a character from a word
Message-ID: <2715@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 22:25:41 GMT
References: <578@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> <894@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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Summary: a weakness in the set of UNIX utilities

The solutions offered to this question point out a weakness in the UNIX
utilities:

     The UNIX utilities are far from being a minimal, orthogonal,
     complete set of tools.

There is a lot of overlap in what the different tools do.  Yet there
are many things that none of them do properly.

Reckless speculation follows:  Perhaps AT&T, while designing the latest
and greatest non-BSD version of UNIX, will do something about this.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi