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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands
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    > From: Norman Wilson

    > It is just plain wrong to code
    >  kill(9, pid)

_All_ uses of magic numbers in numeric form are wrong!

	Noel