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From: sar@datcon.UUCP (Simon A Reap)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: "find" and {a,c,m}time
Message-ID: <27@datcon.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 16:37:05 GMT
References: <170@libove.UUCP> <12364@steinmetz.ge.com> <1400@nitro.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sar@datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap)
Organization: Data Connection Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, UK
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In article <1400@nitro.ATT.COM> prophet@nitro.UUCP (Mike Brooks) writes:
>In article <12364@steinmetz.ge.com>davidsen@crdos1.UUCP(bill davidsen) writes:
>>In article <170@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>>| My manual entry for find(C) (SCO uses bogus manual sections, that should
>>| be find(1) to the real world I think) says:
>>  One of the things I like about Xenix is that I can explain to users
>>that section C is commands, S systems calls, T text processing, etc.
>What would be better though is to break out things like text
>processing, especially since they are add-ons , as opposed to
>base level commands and system calls....
(gross elision performed)
Ah, but pity the poor user who doesn't *know* that text processing is an
addon on their particular system, or the poor programmer who doesn't *know*
that 'time' is a system call and 'ctime' a library routine.  Life gets hard
if you don't have on-line manuals :-(, but you do have the fun of being
sidetracked by funky-looking calls as you flick through the pages :-)
-- 
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