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To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: editors 
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 07:06:44 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> initiation procedure for getting into unix, I'm trying to get the point
> across that changing the editor isn't going to change the fundamental
> nature of what unix is, it just prolongs the point before people
> realise what they're getting in to.

And in that way, putting a nice face on UNIX is like marriage, Paul.
You don't need to keep up the facade all the way, just long enough to
get the user in past the point of no return. :-)

					Jordan