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From: dustin@bleu.west.spy.net. (Dustin Sallings)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 10 Jan 1997 03:05:23 GMT
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> You see, that main problem that I have is total perl-stupidity.  I have no
> clue.  I'm not a programmer (I'va always ment to learn, but hasn't
> everybody).  I do scripting on the mac and abject orented programming in
> hypercard, but that's useless here.

	If you're going to be doing administration on a Unix machine,
you almost have to learn perl.  What a better way then to have a reason
to use it.

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