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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPEs
Summary: We've lit another eternal flame...
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.230424.29716@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 23:04:24 GMT
References: <2203@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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In article <2203@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
+In <1990Nov6.190147.10534@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>, yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
+>
+> [my contribution to the pipe symbol debate removed]
+
+And you don't see using two characters when one would do as overkill? You don't
+mind having Yet Another Restriction On Filenames? (yes, I have a few filenames
+with '->' in them).

Well, no, I don't.  We use `>>' for append, and noone is unhappy about that.
This, to me, is just another logical extension of the "What to do with my
output" symbols.  And I think it looks like a pipe, so it won't be hard to
remember.  And I've tried it out -- it isn't even too hard to type! :-)

And, what are you doing with filenames having the redirection symbol in them?
Isn't that a rather bad idea? 

+-larry

ken
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