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November 2001, Week 3

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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:18:19 -0700
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Wirt writes:

>Jeff Vance writes:
>
>> But, as has already been posted, on UNIX systems there is no
>>  TEMP domain where the file automatically goes away after you
>>  logoff.
>
>Which is only one of a thousand niceties that I'm going to sorely miss.
>
>If anyone asks why I'm so attached to MPE -- it's just another operating
>system, isn't it? -- this is certainly one of them. That and the simple,
>English-like commands -- and the reliability, and robustness, and the
>forgiveness of the thing.

FILE EQUATIONS.

-- Bruce


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