Kevin O' Riordan's [kor@compsoc.com] 30 lines of wisdom included:
> On Pungenday, the 9th day of Bureaucracy, Padraig Brady confessed:
> > How can I repeat a string an arbitrary number
> > I.E. I'm missing the repeat in the following:
>   PREFIX=`perl -e "print '$STRING' x $NUMBER;"`
> I'm pretty sure the bsd 'jot' utility can do this too, but I don't
I didn't think that jot was installed on Linux systems by default,
so from the tone of Padraigs mail that's not what he wanted,
however, if I'm incorrect (don't have a Linux system to hand) the

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John Hall:
>Ran across a site which claimed to explain the original meaning of the
>Ten Commandments.  It seems some of those meanings have evolved a bit, too.
You mean that "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's ass" used to be
about donkeys???  Inconceivable!!!
R

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