Unix dead??? (not a long message)

Phil Staub phils at tekigm.UUCP
Sun Aug 17 04:10:34 AEST 1986


In article <121 at pta.OZ> dave at pta.OZ (Dave Horsfall <VK2KFU>) writes:
>In article <589 at cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr at cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>> Isn't this the same magazine that had the 'Special Unix Issue' last year that
>> compared the wonderful VMS BACKUP utility to the wimpy Unix 'ar' backup utility?
>
>The author obviously was in search of Unix backup utilities, and stopped
>reading at page 1 !!!
>--


I think the point was that the author did not even read page 1, since 'ar'
is a library generator/archiver, not a backup utility.


Phil Staub
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