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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Using zoo
Message-ID: <35180006@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 89 17:35:49 GMT
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Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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/ akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) :
                                           ... "stuff", which looks
>remarkably like "find" in terms of command line options; and probably
>would have been called "find" except for the standard MSDOS program
>called "find" (which SHOULD have been called GREP!).
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Does anyone else find this statement funny?  Not that it doesn't make
perfect sense.  After all, it's a hassle to find the old familiar   
utilities have been given new names on a new system.  This bound to
create confusion among those (like all of us here) who use both.
Still, Unix is infamous for cryptic acronyms and I got a few chuckles
from reading that a utility called FIND should have been called GREP.
Reminds me of an article I was reading the other day about how AWK is
becoming OAWK because NAWK is becoming AWK. :-) :-) :-)

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com