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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Overly Verbose (was Re: Korn shell source)
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Date: 18 Feb 89 23:06:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)

In article <4106@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
| The 11/16/88 version of ksh, as described in "The KornShell Command and
| Programming Language", has just been finished.

"The KornShell Command and Programming Language"???

Did lawyers get ahold of this guy's work?

Whatever happened to calling this thing (brace yourself):

  a shell
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[sigh... longing for the old days of UNIX...]
[double sigh... geez... I thought I'd never have to say that...]
[so, you bust the phone company up, and they zap your UNIX for you.]
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