From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.clark.net ([168.143.0.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24723>; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:02:59 -0400 Received: from clark.net (culliton@explorer.clark.net [168.143.0.7]) by mail.clark.net (8.8.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA28533; Thu, 1 May 1997 13:14:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Culliton Received: (from culliton@localhost) by clark.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id NAA07547; Thu, 1 May 1997 13:14:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:14:56 -0400 Message-Id: <199705011714.NAA07547@clark.net> To: culliton@clark.net, haahr@netcom.com Cc: TimTroyR@ionet.net, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: 99 bottles in an rc shell script. > Why enumerate all the numbers? Why use some external program? Peano > arithmetic is more than sufficient. True, but the way you did it also takes an extra loop. However I was thinking about using it to generate the output backwards, inserting each line at the head of the list, then echoing the whole list at once. 8-o Fortunately it was late and I went to bed before try that. ;-) Tom