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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2007 14:56:23 +0900
From: underspecified <underspecified@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The freq command
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Greetings,

Thank you for the informative reply.

Freq is a nice little program. More people should know about it.

Hoping for a return of the halcyon days of fun little tools,

--underspecified

On 10/8/07, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> freq is a ken original, an old program that sat in his personal bin
> for a long time.
> i don't remember what caused it to become public.
>
> the -r option was a late addition.
>
> it's an odd tool in the old unix tradition.  its output is rarely the
> final answer
> but somehow encodes what you're looking for: this file is ascii; this file
> is
> latin-1; there are no tabs in this file.
>
> i don't think most people even know about it. it's not a central
> application; just
> a reminder of the halcyon days of fun little tools.
>
> -rob
>

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Greetings,<br><br>Thank you for the informative reply. <br><br>Freq is a nice little program. More people should know about it.<br><br>Hoping for a return of the halcyon days of fun little tools,<br><br>--underspecified<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Pike</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:robpike@gmail.com">robpike@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
freq is a ken original, an old program that sat in his personal bin<br>for a long time.<br>i don&#39;t remember what caused it to become public.<br><br>the -r option was a late addition.<br><br>it&#39;s an odd tool in the old unix tradition.&nbsp;&nbsp;its output is rarely the
<br>final answer<br>but somehow encodes what you&#39;re looking for: this file is ascii; this file is<br>latin-1; there are no tabs in this file.<br><br>i don&#39;t think most people even know about it. it&#39;s not a central
<br>application; just<br>a reminder of the halcyon days of fun little tools.<br><br>-rob<br></blockquote></div><br>

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