Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!adm!ted%nmsu.csnet@relay.cs.net From: ted%nmsu.csnet@relay.cs.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V5#101 Message-ID: <16583@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 21 Jul 88 03:33:23 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 29 Dave Hammond writes: ... I am having so much fun correcting the grammar ... First off, you were correcting spelling, not grammar. I would like to ask Dave how many languages he can write even half as well as Jay Jungalwala writes in English. In particular, how many that are not in the Germanic/Romance families. I am just guessing, but the odds are very good that JJ speaks 2-5 Indic languages, and can probably read and write them in several orthographies, some following sanskrit traditions (~1000 characters, left to right), and some following arabic traditions (consonants only, written right to left with very complicated calligraphic constraints). In addition, it seems that JJ speaks very passable and understandable English. His spelling in nearly every case was due to assuming that English suffixes are regular. (if mister jungalwala is in fact a third generation american who really is a terrible speller, please, nobody tell me). FINALLY, no, I think he is not looking for an explanation of how suid works, not su itself.