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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] History
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:35:56 +0000
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forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> if you are intent for whatever reason on capturing, recovering, and
> especially modifying typed input on the fly (as with command
> completion but other things as well), i'd plug something (cf. pipefile)
> between typist and the recipient of the typing.

Indeed, one measure of how good an operating system really is
is how transparent and efficient a program like BSD "script" is.