Re: Where does the sugar go? (was Re: Sort problem )

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From: Tim.Goodwin
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:41

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In article <84902@netnews.upenn.edu> chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz) writes:
>I agree, but I often wonder what to do with the output "sugar", such
>as prompts or headers, which are not well suited for filtering.
>...

UNIX is (was) a diet OS.  Sugar free.

I fume every time I want to say

    sccs delget `sccs info`

but can't.  This "sugar" is bitter to my taste.

Pragmatically, why not turn on the sugar with a command line flag?

Tim.
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