"Avail" = "advantage"?

[Wilson Gray]

>From Slashdot:

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/27/1551206

"... more UNIX references for those willing and able to _take avail
of_ the UNIX kernel underlying the operating system ..."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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