promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))

[Tom Neff]

In article <1989Dec1.083526.23734 at eda.com> jim at eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>Note:
>
>xargs is not a feature of UNIX. Period.
>
>It is a PROGRAM available on several versions of Unix derived from
>certain late model ATT versions of UNIX, and ported to some, but
>certainly not all, non-ATT versions of UNIX.

Good description of perl too, come to think of it! :-)

Now which tool's simpler...



-- 
The real problem with SDI is     %/    Tom Neff
that it doesn't kill anybody.    /%    tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET