Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPEs Message-ID: <7010@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 8 Nov 90 12:57:41 GMT References: <6984@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov4.215000.2760@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1990Nov6.075223.29417@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov6.190147.10534@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 13 In article <1990Nov6.190147.10534@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes: > ls -l usr:big/ole/directory->more (which = ls -l usr:big/ole/dir -> more) So long as you make that: list usr:big/old/directory->more Because making - a metacharacter will break UNIX-style command options. Which is probably a good thing, IMHO... they're usually the result of laziness on the part of the programmer who did the Amiga port. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .