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    SubjectRe: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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    "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said:
    > Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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    > ***ml.edu on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:23:06PM -0400
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    > Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>:

    [...]

    > > It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed
    > > changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.

    > The right way to handle that is to have a report generator that does the
    > grep for you, or if you like simply returns the concatenation of all the
    > map blocks so you can grep that.

    Please, _no_ specialized-just-for-linux-kernel-hacking tools! Unix is great
    because it has _no_ such for-one-task-only tools, which you have to learn
    how to use each time a reason for using them comes around.
    --
    Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
    Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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