1 Apr
2017
1 Apr
'17
9:39 p.m.
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
+1 a good morning chuckle on a snowy day in New England.
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