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> There's no authority to complain to about all this...

Whoever accepts patches to base UNIX system libraries would be a good start.

> Fortunately the Unix tools work the same with any byte stream, pretty much, so they've survived gloriously since the 1970s.

So would a structured text format, except you wouldn't be discarding and then recreating semantic information at every junction of a pipe.




> Whoever accepts patches to base UNIX system libraries would be a good start.

That can be you! Get to work, or pay someone else to get to work if the skills required aren't in your set.




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