... knowledge^4.1

More accurately, it requires lots of hit-&-miss experience.

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...mktime.^4.2

As of May 2001, the last I saw such a system was January 2001. Not long ago at all.

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... library.^4.3

This is the ``fills in the holes'' aspect of Phil.

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... agreement.^5.1

If the license agreement doesn't make this legal, then I need to change the license agreement.

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... -i.^6.1

Why the two formats? The .tar.gz format is more common, but I prefer the .cpio.bz2 format, so I've decided to distribute both. Why do I prefer the second format? Because bzip2 compresses better than gzip & because cpio is more fun to use than tar.

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... periods.^8.1

I haven't bothered to figure out if it's on the hour or only at midnight.

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... bits.^10.1

A byte is not always eight bits. A byte is ``the smallest naturally addressible unit of memory'', & it's not always eight bits. Have you ever noticed that RFCs usually say ``octet'' instead of ``byte''? This is why.

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... date^10.2

``To date'' as of this writing is Saturday, 9 June 2001.

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... versions.^10.3

If you're a Lisp programmer, you're saying ``I've seen that before in the Common Lisp function make-pathname & its related functions''. Yes, you have. That's exactly the kind of portable filename interface I'm getting at, & that's exactly where I got the idea.

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... programs.^10.4

Other people call them ``shell scripts''. I refuse to distinguish between a script & a program. Call me silly. I won't try to change your definitions if you won't try to change mine.

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