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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2003 08:14:38 -0700
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> Does this suggest why quoting (prompted by a limitation
> at the "shell" level) was the wrong idea?

it may have been wrong to do anything at the shell level,
but it was put in to clean up kernel interfaces and there i
think it was a success.  with textual command syntax,
you need some help.