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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: unrming files
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 14:48:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 14:48:35 1987
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In article <6155@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>The raw UNIX system ... has no business implementing any PARTICULAR file
>backup strategy....  Any specific policy for file management should be
>imposed by end-user interfaces -- which the UNIX shell is emphatically NOT.

Strange ... for once I agree with an opinion of Doug Gwyn's ... :-)

On the other hand, the shell is a programmer interface as well as a 
language, and programmers, too, may want other file management policies.
All this really means is that shells should be easier to write.
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