[Thus spake Ignatios Souvatzis ("IS: ") Thursday...]

IS: From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
IS: To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List
IS:     <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
IS: Subject: Re: RFC seq(1) command
IS: Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:53:57 +0100
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IS: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:54:38AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
IS:
IS: > Looking at the manual page for jot(1) now I can't imagine what new,
IS: > unique, feature it brings.  It just seems to be yet another rather
IS: > convoluted way to do things that could already be done easily with
IS: > existing more general tools like awk.
IS:
IS: Well, yes. OTOH, it allows for a higher level of abstraction in my
IS: scripts.

...that, and not everybody wants to sit and script an awk replacement
to do this every time they happen to need it.

It's just another tool, what's the big?

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