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RE: Help Understanding Path Issue


On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 30 June 2006 12:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jun 30 11:16, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 30 June 2006 10:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> A quick grep over the ChangeLogs is sometimes very helpful.
> >>
> >>   Eeeewww!  If the hippos have grepped all over the ChangeLogs, *I'm* not
> >> cleaning it up!
> >
> > This is TYPICAL man!  And who IS going to clean up afterwards?
>
>   This is TYPICAL woman!  You just *assumed* I /had/ to be assuming a
> woman should do it!  Why can't the hippos do it?  The hippos dropped it,
> the hippos can pick it up!
>
>   Well, if the hippo won't clean up all that grep, maybe we can persuade
> the cat and the awk to scoop it up.  After all, what do we have
> computers for if not to do the work for us?

Well, cat is probably going to do it, since they are so obsessed with
cleanliness, but aren't awks just trees?  How would they help clean it up?
Or are you thinking Heracles' fifth labour and the Augeas' stables?  I
would imagine it'll take a while for the ChangeLogs to dry, in that case.
	Igor
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