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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Did I get in?
Article: 7806 of alt.hackers From: dilatush@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Todd Dilatush) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Did I get in? Date: 12 May 1995 14:39:32 GMT Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA Lines: 22 Approved: FDA approved, not over one part per million content Message-ID: 3ovrv4$j5v@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Steven M. Loranz (sloranz@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu) wrote: : didn't want. I know...this is lame and is well known amongst the UNIX : gods...but I felt good that I could fix it without too much thought Using "cat" to edit a file is damn simple (I do it because I'm too lazy often to fire up emacs or learn vi) ... using it when you need to fix something should count as a hack, though. A _real_ hack is when you don't have "cat" so you write a script (ObHack:) #!/bin/sh tee /dev/null which doesn't have much of the cat functionality but has that part. Anybody want to guess what machine? Hint: Reference some of my other posts about "cat".
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