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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long)
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:06:09 EDT
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Yes, you can do "ls | pr -t -5...", but how many times a day do you do an ls?
I type "ls" all the time. I like columnar output. I'm running on an LSI-11 in
which the script is significantly slower than the command.

We don't all have vaxes.