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the temporality of an era (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 days ago

cat -vconsidered harmful

[-] pmjv 33 points 5 days ago

Bell Laboratories

Murray Hill, NJ (dec!ucb)wav!research!rob

It seems that UNIX has become the victim of cancerous growth at the hands of
organizations such as UCB. 4.2BSD is an order of magnitude larger than Version
5, but, Pike claims, not ten times better.

The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a
primary example, how UNIX has grown fat. cat isn't for printing files with line
numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it's not for looking at
non-printing ASCII characters, it's for concatenating files.

We are reminded that ls isn't the place for code to break a single column into
multiple ones, and that mailnews shouldn't have its own more processing or joke
encryption code.

Rob carried the standard well for the "spirit of UNIX," and you can look
forward to a deeper look at the philosophy of UNIX in his forthcoming book.

[-] qrstuv 2 points 3 days ago

Rob carried the standard well for the "spirit of UNIX,"

if (isatty(1)) {

	if (ioctl(1,JMUX,0) >= 0) {
		struct winsize win;
		if (ioctl(1,JWINSIZE,&win) >= 0) {
			screenwidth = win.bytesx;
			if (screenwidth == 0)
				screenwidth++;
		}
	}

	qflg = Cflg = 1;
	(void) gtty(1, &sgbuf);
	if ((sgbuf.sg_flags & XTABS) == 0)
		usetabs = 1;
}

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