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From: honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Pipes
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Date: 14 Nov 90 05:17:13 GMT
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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:

> +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.

That's what I get for not R'ing TFM enough.  I got the impression that the
parentheses were required from a magazine article (in Transactor, I believe.) 
Unfortunately for me, the DOS gospel according to Bantam seems to say
otherwise, and I cant find the article anyway.  Oh, well, live and learn.

> +>      -Bill Seymour                                            billsey@agora

>      Ken Yarnall                 ///   yarnall@usceast.cs.scarolina.EDU
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