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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 14:13:18 GMT
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Scott Schwartz (schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu) wrote:
: Bash is about three times the size of the Plan 9 kernel.  Plan 9 + the
: 8.5 window system + the rc shell is still smaller.

: Something's out of hand in Unix land.

You're forgetting, "Gnu's Not Unix".

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hpeyerl@novatel.ca                           |  NovAtel Communications Ltd.
hpeyerl@fsa.ca                               | <nothing I say matters anyway>
 "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."