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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ls -C considered harmful (really ls follies)
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 16:52:41 EDT
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> Do you realize that for all the billions and billions of options hacked
> into ls, I've never seen a version of ls that can sort files based on size?
> shoe size of the programmer maybe, but never file size.... 
> 
> chuq (no, DON'T do it! please! We don't NEED another option....)
> Chuq Von Rospach         nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

Too late, chuq ...  but at least we kept it a local hack, we didn't post it
to net.everywhere.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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