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Date: Fri,  4 Apr 2008 01:12:34 +0200
From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in echo?
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Nobody appreciates a perfectly good joke anymore. (And I'm afraid I crossed
that line with my name-calling earlier tonight...)

* a@9srv.net (a@9srv.net) wrote:
> Is -M the switch for the built-in mail reader?
>
> This is lunacy, or profound ignorance. You're duplicating
> functionality from about a half dozen other places in here,
> perhaps most significantly the shell. The software tools
> model gets its profound power from using simple tools
> which do one thing well and can be combined in arbitrary
> ways. Your... whatever... does lots of arbitrary things,
> while not actually doing much of anything for the user.
>
> If this is the "ultimate" echo, I fear for what "something
> cool" might be. I don't think my health could take it.
> Anthony