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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Ninth Edition incomplete?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 10:27:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201704011427.v31ERw4e021553@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E282B4A9-A92E-40A2-B805-FA911377500A@superglobalmegacorp.com>

> I find it striking that v9 is missing stuff like more or less.

As indeed one should. Few programs better illustrate the contrast
in sensibilities between Gnu and Research Unix. If v9 had --help
(which is a good thing) the counterpart programs would behave 
about like this:
        less --help | wc -l
        233
        p --help | wc -l
	3


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-01 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-01 13:38 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-01 13:47 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-01 14:27   ` Doug McIlroy [this message]
2017-04-01 15:39     ` Clem Cole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-05 16:08 Norman Wilson
2017-04-04 21:01 Norman Wilson
2017-04-05  9:39 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-04-01 14:09 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-03 17:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-04-04 13:07   ` Random832
2017-04-04 13:14     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-31 19:16 Norman Wilson
2017-03-31 19:53 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-01  5:43   ` Warner Losh
2017-03-31 15:34 Diomidis Spinellis
2017-04-01  0:40 ` Noel Hunt

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