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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: /local/bin/unixstat
Message-ID: <90Feb27.102011est.410@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 27 Feb 90 15:20:40 GMT
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unixstat is installed on CSRI (and all tracking domains) on Suns.  (In
future, maybe on Irises) It has been for many years.  Alison's
announcement merely pointed out we have a new version for the benefit
of those who were asking about stats tools.  (The Deptt. of Statistics
has various other stats tools running on their Unix systems - S, for
instance)

The few times I've used it to munge large chunks of data, I found
unixstat useful and easy to use and interface with report generators
like awk and grap.  But then, I have no real objection to the Unix
command line.

Point and click visual interfaces are useful for many things, pipes
are useful for many others.  If someone has a nice visual interface
for tying together lots of different operations on data sets, plotting
them, etc, on some window system available here, by all means, get a
copy and lets try it, discuss it, and flame about it...  In the
meantime, why denigrate useful tools?

We return you to your regularly scheduled rational discussion on HCI...

	Mark, trying to head off yet another Mac/Unix war...