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::Thanks. That's great. I didn't know the rs command, and my previous googling returned nothing, as well as rs not being found on my Cygwin Unix emulation installation. <br>
::P.S: I searched for a section of the man page text and came up with links like [http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=rs this] and [http://www.unix.com/man-page/OSX/1/RS/ this]. Now I have the links, it would be OK to remove the actual man page from your talk page if it is cluttering. Thanks again - I didn't know about rs for reshape. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 04:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
== Machinations behind the user page ==
When you use the mylang template, the text you use to identify the language automatically puts your username as part of a MediaWiki category. Unfortunately, MediaWiki doesn't have a mechanism for aliasing categories, so I can't tell it "hey, PL/I and PL/1 are the same thing". As a result, if you have PL/I in the mylang template, you wind up in [[:Category:PL/I User]], whereas if you have PL/1 in the mylang template, you wind up in [[:Category:PL/1 User]]. It's a rather annoying software limitation that won't be fixed until someone has time to write a patch. I understand your frustrations. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 20:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
: In any case, we are following the naming conventions used by Wikipedia. See [[wp:PL/I]]. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 22:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
This makes perfect sense -- having an automaton tracking down language references. Thanks for the explanation. --[[User:Aks|Aks]] 21:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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