Re: devolopin a mew lang........

On Friday 30 June 2006 02:39, Chris F.A. Johnson stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

On 2006-06-29, Aragorn wrote:

Traditionally, everything in UNIX is considered to be a file.

Traditionally, everything in UNIX is a stream of bytes.

That too of course. ;-) And then those bytes are neatly ordered in
files. ;-)

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With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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