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From: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <1001@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 7 Jun 90 13:41:09 GMT
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>From a user's viewpoint (You do remember users?  They pay the bills.), the
>difference is far more than syntactic sugar.  The difference is information
>overload and confusion.

>Under Unix, the user strings together a set of filters by a convenient and
>reasonably transparent mechanism, the one line set of piped commands.

I fully agree here. I also wish the piping mechanism in the standard Amiga
SHELL would be similar to UNIX' "|".

>Looking at the Amiga implementation, like looking at the choice of "#?" for
>the wildcard (that I for one use on over half my typed lines), rather than
>the single keystroke "*", brings to mind the same question:  "Why did the

Actually the #? has it's advantages. Not very many standard AmigaDOS commands
can handle the wildcards, but with those who can, the Amiga wildcards are
more powerful than UNIX'. You can match patterns with #?| and the others
(can't remember them all) that is impossible in UNIX.

Sorry I can't come up with an example, but I know it is the case
because this has been discussed here before.

Mike
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