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Date:      14 Dec 2002 11:42:02 -0800
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: aaaarrrrggghhh - I can't remember and it's killling me..
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"George Barnett" <george@alink.co.za> writes:

> > paste(1)
> 
> [anybody know (or care about) how to do this in
> Windows? - didn't think so..].

With emphasis on "or care about".  For good or ill, the NEED to do such
a task is evaporating, in the world of most Windows users and elsewhere.
Most stuff is being put in HTML or XML or PDF or even DOC and other
complex, poorly-documented, formats.  And much is being put into
databases, SQL-accessible and not.  It all makes the easy manipulation
of data impossible and makes non-easy manipulation expensive, but it has
it's benefits and its increasing use is rendering the tools of plain-
text hackers increasingly arcane.  The trend will probably get "worse":
with almost all data being accessed programatically from databases of
one form or another, dynamic web pages being an early example.  The very
concept of files is absent from some visions of the future.

I suspect that much data would be better off in plain-text files, and
very much effort (ie, money) wasted by a general move to non-text forms
of data storage, but because of the real benefits such moves make in
many importance cases, the trend will be unavoidable.

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