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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: getgrnam(3) bug
Message-ID: <1084@X.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 01:49:00 GMT
References: <6076@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <769@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog
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In article <769@yabbie.rmit.oz>, rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
> >>	if you have as many people in a group that your favourite editor
> >>	won't let fit onto a single line;
> > Use another editor.
> Get serious!  The groups file is meant to be a text file.  It should
> be editable by a text editor.  Any text editor!  If it can't be edited
> by any text editor then it is seriously in doubt of being a text file.
>  
MY TEXT EDITOR CAN ONLY HANDLE
UPPERCASE FILES OF 40 COLUMNS OR
LESS.  PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU
POST ONLY ARTICLES WHICH ARE TEXT
FILES AS DEFINED BY "ANY" (THEREFORE
MY) TEXT EDITOR.  THANK YOU.

Bleah!  What an offensive notion!  "If it can't be edited by" my favorite
"text editor then it is seriously in doubt of being a text file."

-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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