Initial ABS's presentation

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+A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
+B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
+C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
+D is for dd, the command that does all.
+E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
+F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
+G is for grep, a clever detective, while
+H is for halt, which may seem defective.
+I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
+J is for join, which nobody uses.
+K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
+L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
+M is for more, from which less was begot, and
+N is for nice, which it really is not.
+O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
+P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
+Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
+R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
+S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
+T is for true, which does very little.
+U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
+V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
+W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
+X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
+Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
+Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
+               -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX