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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames - Extingushed - fizzle
Message-ID: <696@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 12 Aug 89 15:21:33 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

In , shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>George> Oh you mean like the make, diff, egrep, sed, tee, ... on MY
>George> amiga Of course I just need to click on that cute little box
>George> in the upper right and pop up my vt100 window which
>George> automatically logged into the Sun just as I got up. Geesh and
>George> I haven't even finished eating breakfast yet!!!
>
>Great, that proves nothing.  So you can use your Amiga as a terminal
>to a Unix machine and get all those wonderful utilities.  That doesn't
>give you that functionality ON THE AMIGA.

Well, I have those utilities on my Amiga as well. Just because George doesn't,
don't assume that they aren't there. The one slight exception is that 'sed' is
called 'see' (put out by Rick Schaeffer), but the exception is in name only.

-larry

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