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Date: Thu,  9 Apr 2009 15:28:58 -0400
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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question
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2009/4/9 Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>:
>> set | wc -l
>> =A0 8047
>> well.
>
> This is nearly as big as the shell itself in the (ahem) good old days.
>
> term% tar tzvf interdata_v6.tar.gz bin/sh
> --rwxr-xr-x =A0 =A0 8316 Nov 13 15:48 1978 bin/sh

No, it's very likely bigger. wc -l is lines of course, and I'm
guessing each line is more than 1 character. However,

$ set | wc -l
64

I don't quite get that locally.

--dho