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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Peter's suggestions for ash
Message-ID: <4588@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 13:08:01 GMT
References: <4573@sugar.hackercorp.com> <ANDREWT.89Nov21113142@watsnew.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <ANDREWT.89Nov21113142@watsnew.waterloo.edu> andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) writes:
> the shell says that the backquote facility is there only for
> compatibility purposes.  I agree with Brian Fox (writer of bash) on
> this issue.  If you plan to include the backquote syntax, PLEASE do
> not remove the $() syntax in the process.

I have no problem with this. BUT for compatibility please, Koren, add the
backquotes. Most UNIX shell scripts use them. (all the ones that don't come
from GNU do, for example).
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U`  "Really, that tedious net etiquette stuff simply can't be expected
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