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The Customer and the Unix Consultant

Cust  what is the command that will tell me the revision code of a program ?
UNIX  yes, that's correct.
Cust  no, what is it ?
UNIX  yes.
Cust  so, which is the one ?
UNIX  no.'which' is used to find the program.
Cust  stop this. who are you ?
UNIX  use 'who am i' not 'who r yoo'.you can also 'finger yoo' to get information about 'yoo'.
Cust  all i want to know is what finds the revision code ?
UNIX  use 'what'.
Cust  that's what i am trying to find out. isn't that true ?
UNIX  no. 'true' gives you 0.
Cust  which one ?
UNIX  'true' gives you 0. 'which programname'
Cust  let's get back to my problem. what program? how do i find it?
UNIX  type 'find/-name it' to find 'it'.type 'what program' to get the revision code.
Cust  i want to find the revision code.
UNIX  you can't 'find revisioncode', you must use 'what program'.
Cust  which command will do what i need?
UNIX  no. 'which command' will find 'command'.
Cust  i think i understand. let me write that.
UNIX  you can 'write that' only if 'that' is a user on your system.
Cust  write what?
UNIX  no. 'write that'.'what program'.
Cust  cut that out!
UNIX  yes. those are valid files for 'cut'.don't forget the options.
Cust  do you always do this ?
UNIX  'du' will give you disk usage.
Cust  HELP!
UNIX  'help' is only used for Source Code Control System(SCCS).
Cust  you make me angry.
UNIX  no, I don't 'make me' angry but i did 'make programname' when i was upset once.
Cust  i don't want to make trouble, so no more.
UNIX  no 'more'? 'which' will help you find 'more'. every system has 'more'.
Cust  nice help! I'm confused more now.
UNIX  understand that since 'help' is such a small program, it is better not to 'nice help'. and  'more now' is not allowed but 'at now' is.  Unless of course 'now' is a file name.
Cust  this is almost as confusing as my PC.
UNIX  i didn't know you needed help with 'pc'.let me get you to the Pascal compiler team.
 

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