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From: stern@bnl.UUCP (Eric Stern)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: May be offensive to UNIX Users - PLE
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 00:02:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 00:02:56 1984
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>Try giving a casual user who knows C (on Unix) or Fortran (on VMS) the
>assignment to "write a program that creates a file that has the word
>'plugh' in it, following the documentation." On VMS, using RMS, you're
>dead, since the documentation swamps you with no USEFUL examples. On Unix,
>you stand a fighting chance.
>
>	Jeff Bowles
>	Lisle, IL
>
>
   Who needs to look at RMS?  The Fortran Users Guide is more than
sufficient to handle this problem and it even has examples!

					Eric Stern