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In a message dated: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:45:13 EST
Erik Price said:

>Because I didn't know it.

Okay, that's fair.   And, I mistakenly applied a false definition to 
the word arcane (thinking it meant little known).  But according to 
Merriam-Webster:

	Arcane:		known or knowable only to the initiate

So I guess in this case, we were the initiate, and you weren't :)

> And I had never heard of a getpwent() function,

Okay, again, fair, but yet surprising...

> nor did I know that sysadmins often resorted to knowledge of C 
>structs and pointers in the course of their work.

A good sysadmin resort to just about any knowledge they have in their 
work.  We read everything, we try to know enough about anything even 
remotely related to computers and networks, and, ultimately, attempt 
to apply that to something which will help us work less :)

> (I don't run a Linux box, I just have an account on a friend's,
> so this man page isn't something I've ever seen before.

That explains a lot of why I didn't understand where you were coming 
from :)

> And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, which doesn't use an /etc/passwd
> file for user info.)

Really?  I thought OS X was BSD?  Where is user info stored?  Is 
there an /etc/passwd file?

>Arcaneness is just relative, I guess.

Yeah, but so is everything :)
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