CompuServe Messages

Glad you get use out of 'uniq'. It was a real blast to realize the power of the associative memory aspects of stem variables, and frankly, I wrote it just because I had discovered the technique, and saw how it could be used for a program that I needed anyway. I have been annoyed too, at the lack of ability to use pipes on many programs, and every time I run across a program that allows it, that will replace one of the same functionality, I will replace the non-piping one. I will even put up with some slowdown, a little less functionality, and so on, just to gain the piping advantage.I still use the ARP sort because it accepts stdin and sends output to stdout, though the CBM version might do that now too. Lets hope that as time goes on, more authors will realize the advantages of these small tools that can be built into more complex tools. -larry