awk arguments
Martin Weitzel
martin at mwtech.UUCP
Sun Jul 29 23:07:50 AEST 1990
In article <13424 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
[....]
: (1) Install the new version of "foo" as "nfoo";
: link "foo" to "ofoo".
: (2) Users now have time to investigate what changes if any
: their applications need to work with "nfoo". If they
: don't have time to deal with it, they should change to
: using "ofoo" instead of "foo". If something is newly
: developed that depends on features present only in the
: new version, it should invoke "nfoo".
: (3) Considerably later, "nfoo" is linked to "foo", replacing
: the previous "foo" link. "ofoo" remains installed. Note
: that all applications continue to work at this point.
: (4) Everyone is encouraged to finish converting from "ofoo"
: to the new version of "foo", and to just use the name
: "foo" instead of "nfoo".
: (5) Considerably later, "ofoo" and "nfoo" are removed/
Does anybody know a way how we could print this in VERY LARGE LETTERS
and make sure that a copy is pinned to the wall near every terminal,
where someone is working on `improvements' of unix tools or commands?
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Martin Weitzel, email: martin at mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83
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