Malcolm Johnston wrote: <snip>
Interestingly, some of the issues we chatted about then, such as the desirability of maintaining the tool-box approach and not, say, hard-wiring a pager into the "man" command, have been altered by the huge improvements in processing speed and memory, just as the "-e" got chopped off "creat()".
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Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"? Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
