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From: a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Message-ID: <3717@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 90 00:54:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> eeh@public.BTR.COM writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <890@public.BTR.COM>
> Posted: 3 Nov 90 22:26:55 GMT
> 
> Org.  : BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA, Contact: cs@btr.com 415-966-1429
> Person: Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com
> 
> In article <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu
> (Pete Goodeve) writes:
> >
> >
> >In  <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP>, Russell McOrmond (rwm@atronx.UUCP)
> writes:
> >> In a message posted on 2 Nov 90 09:15:42 GMT,
> >> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) wrote:
> 
> >> PG>make the Shell suitably smart -- AND design a suitable syntax. (Avoid
> "|"
> >> PG>please!)
> 
> >> What's wrong with that notation?
> >>                                  If you don't like that, what do YOU
> suggest.
> 
> 
>         What about "=" ?  It even looks alot more lile a pipe than "|". I
> think
> that the only place "=" will cause problems would be when using something
> like
> set or in scripts where you are doing comparisons.  In scripts, just look for
> "==" or ">=", etc.  Set can be modified to allow something like:
> 
> set FRED 55
>         or
> set "FRED=55"
> 
> both give the same results (i.e. FRED=55.)  Is there anything else that using
> "=" as a pipe would break?
> 
> 
> --
> ======================================================================= ==
> Eduardo Horvath                         eeh@btr.com
>                                         ..!{decwrl,mips,fernwood}!btr!e eh
>         "Trust me, I am cognizant of what I am doing." - Hammeroid

And suddenly, in the twilight ... brilliance.   Okay, okay: perhaps over
enthusiastic, but I like it; an equal sign for a pipe.