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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:23:04 +0100
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> That hurts when you are working on "xml, java, arpcs, ...".

if they're working with that lot, they must indeed be used to pain.
you can reassure them that files don't bite.

it's a little strange, along the lines of the story about the man being
shown in early unix days how to create a file, who couldn't at first understand
how the computer could be able to create a file with
	cp this that
without specifying LRECL, BLKSIZE, VOLUME, SPACE, etc etc.