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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
Message-ID: <15839@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 21:57:30 GMT
References: <99.273647DB@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov8.173836.19620@agora.uucp> <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu> <1990Nov13.125723.8271@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov13.125723.8271@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall) writes:
>In article <7594.273e8c18@jetson.uh.edu> honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III) writes:
>+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.

	Uh, I advise trying it before saying that.  A current "bug" in the
pattern-match code means that it requires the parens.  This may be promoted
to a feature if it is sufficiently hard to fix (it's in a very tight, complex,
hard-to-modify assembler module).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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