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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 12:17:44 GMT
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In article <D34719.908@bonkers.taronga.com> peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>No frills V7 but you got vi and csh. (thank the gods, the Tektronix editor
>LDE sucked dirty sweat socks through a mouldy straw)

vi .. thats not real v7 8). I bet you got the BSD ls which did columns too.
(I like the v7 manuals they actually explain why it would be stupid to have
ls do column listings because you can use ls | col for that...)

Alan


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