thats great tsuwm! i sent Jackie a PM about Shell (you're welcome to copy and post it Jackie!)-- and warned her-- she was liable to get answers that were strings of words, and that while each word on its own was understandable, the string would be techno babble..

both of these definations require some understanding of programing languages, and programing logic.-- it sound like Auk is the basis of a threaded bulliten board.. it lets us add text to an open file ( Any file of the form var=value is treated as an assignment, not a filename. )--(ie, any thread--)

and sed is the text editor to the files.. (so we can edit..) but i am just guessing here.. i know just enough unix to recognize it..

if any one really knows Unix (Musick, aren't you one of the local Unix nerds? or maybe Xara can find us someone.. there are some unix nerds lurking here.. i told unix jokes... and some body got them.) maybe thay can make the explaination understandable to a computer neophyte.