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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:30:29 -0600
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] molesting the acme filesystem
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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
>
>> i'm not sure why acme and other plan9 filesystems typically disallow a
>> trailing newline
>> on input and don't provide one on output.
>
>
> Yup.  This one is my top entry for the confusomatic contest.

I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for
removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here.

ron