From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 29 Sep 1999 - 11:11:27 IST
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Mike Knell mentioned:
> > I think it is very noble of the UK group sponsoring animals. After all,
> > they are known to be a nation of animal lovers. I think it would be a
> > far better to sponsor humans.
> A bit late, I know, but I feel obliged to point out that..
>
> The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was
> founded quite a while _after_ the Royal Society for the Prevention
> of Cruelty to Animals - IIRC, as an offshoot of the latter.
Well, it's not as if there was a shortage of children, or that Dogs could
do much in the cotton mills & mines.
On the old shell script thing. Printing out $LINENO from inside a shell
function will print the offset from the start of the function. Smeg.
Kate
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