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| In article <3594@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
| ... the really neat thing I thought
| about Unix software tools was they kept much of the library function
| while also being executable programs.  There was the spline program
| and the spine function.

In article <14479@duke.cs.duke.edu> gm@romeo.UUCP (Greg McGary) writes:
| Yes, this is a `really neat thing' but not something I usually think
| of as a feature of UNIX.  If anything, this isn't done anywhere nearly
| often enough.

   Hmmn.  
   If memory serves, that was a carry-over from Multics.  The mutlicks
 standards manual strongly suggested you write a set of functions which
 fit a standardized external interface, and directed you to something
 called the subsystems utility package, which would ease the writing
 of such an interface.

   To return to the present, a standard interface package for either
 a line-of-text style or an icon-and-menu style might make a component 
 which would make writing framework for other components easier....


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