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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:49:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: add inverse option to ministat
Message-ID:  <77609.1436942964@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20150715002013.GZ8523@funkthat.com>
References:  <20150715002013.GZ8523@funkthat.com>

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In message <20150715002013.GZ8523@funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:

>Instead of having to massage the data, or know that below a certain
>percentage you can just flip the sign, provide this, and you'll now
>convert to x per second, giving you an easier comparision for talking.

Why isn't this fundamentally against the UNIX and Software Tools Philosphy
and the first step on a long road to turn ministat into R ?

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