Gripes about /bin/sh AND /bin/csh

[Daniel M. Frank]

>In case you haven't notice the recurring refrain in all of the above
>response, it is this:
>
>	Read the manual.
>-- 
>Karl Kleinpaste

   I was one of the people who first tried to deal with Phil's problem
here, and the one who encouraged him to post some of his questions to
the net.  I'm not particularly pleased by an arrogant response like this.
The fact is, that Phil read the manual, and I read the manual, and neither
of us could find, either in the manual or by experiment, solutions to
some of the questions for which you only have your smug refrain.

   Perhaps we're just another couple stupid PhD students, but the manual
wasn't a lot of help in this case.  Unix manuals often leave out important
information on the theory that you can read the source, so what do you
need a manual for?  We posted to usenet in order to draw on some experience
that we presume is out there.  If you are so smart, and you have all the
solutions at your fingertips, why don't you share them instead of demon-
strating how superior you are (do you really know the solutions?  We
can't tell, can we?)?

-- 
	Dan Frank
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