Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!dukeac!wolves!ggw From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Filters (was ABE Source & introduction) Summary: sorry bout that chiefs Message-ID: <1990Mar9.052852.3708@wolves.uucp> Date: 9 Mar 90 05:28:52 GMT References: <100765@looking.on.ca> <333@comcon.UUCP> <1990Mar3.042312.12638@wolves.uucp> <344@comcon.UUCP> Reply-To: ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) Followup-To: /dev/null Organization: Wolves Den UNIX BBS Lines: 32 In article <344@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: >> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >> >The concept of >> > type foo | tiny-dabe >abe.arc >> >is silly. It is not meant to be a filter in this manner. You would use >> > tiny-dabe abe.arc >> >> Uhm, Brad. These two forms are equivalent. > >Gregory, the original comment came from me. UUnfortunately, in the >MS-DOS corral, the 2 forms are anything _but_ equivalent. Urr, umm, (let me wipe the egg off of my face here ;-) The "effect" of the two forms are equivalent! I did not mean to imply that there was no difference in the actual actions performed. Nor did I mean to imply that the posters were "wrong" in any sense. Please excuse this addle-pated "stupid *nix freak" for typing before engaging the brain clutch. It is hard to remember that not everyone has the luxury of a personal '386 with lots of memory and space and the ability to collect enough stuff so that the unix and dos environments that I deal with are as similar as possible. My apologies for the wasted bandwidth. -- Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]