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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.125723.8271@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 12:57:23 GMT
References: <99.273647DB@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov8.173836.19620@agora.uucp> <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu>
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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In article <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu> honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III) writes:
+In article <1990Nov8.173836.19620@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
+
+> 	But if we now reserve | for a pipe, what will I use for an 'OR'? That's
+> what | is used for now in the AmigaDOS pattern matching... I would be all for
+> using it in piping, if it hadn't been used before.
+
+It is required that the '|' used as logical-or be enclosed with its arguments
+in parenthesis.  In some cases, the usual AmigaDos commands will accept the OR
+symbol without parenthesis, but this is not consistent with the spec.

Not true with any spec I've read.

+Do the pattern-matching functions in 2.0 require the parenthesis grouping?

Definitely not.

+>      -Bill Seymour                                            billsey@agora

ken
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