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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Adventure in UNIX commands
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 20:39:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 20:39:53 1984
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Now that's not fair. You used an uncivilized shell! If you had been using
csh, you could alias all those commands to obvious things. Furthermore,
you could use the history mechanism to repeat things quicker.

Bourne shell, I concede, is superior to csh in it's flexibility of signal
handling, and it does OK for programming shell scripts, but god forbid
that you should ever want to use it for an interactive user interface.

	Please, Help Stamp Out Bourne Shell,

	Erik E. Fair

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