[TUHS] Ninth Edition incomplete?
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Sun Apr 2 01:39:24 AEST 2017
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > 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
>
+1 a good morning chuckle on a snowy day in New England.
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