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From: Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net>
Date: Wed,  7 Nov 2007 20:21:55 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] late to the party - Here docs
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This may be spectacularly stupid, but . . .

It seems to me that the Plan 9 (or UNIX) way here, given pipes
and good text processing tools, is to think that there is absolutely
no need for me to write rc scripts the way that rc demands that
I write them as long as I have a (perhaps sed or awk based)
preprocessor. So, instead of actually writing

	echo 1
	echo 2
	.
	.
	.
	echo n

one might just write

	echoon
	1
	2
	.
	.
	.
	n
	echooff

and pass it through the preprocessor before it gets run by rc.

Is that nuts? It seems to me that, if you don't write a lot of long
here doc using scripts, you can just write the echos, but if you
do, it might be worthwhile to do something like that.

Just a mildly buzzed thought. Man, the Berkshire Brewing
Company makes some good beer. :-)

Greg