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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
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Subject: Re: PIPEs
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ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:

>IMO, *everything* in the user/machine interface should be programmable.  This
>includes choice of wildcards and other "special symbols", as well as aliases,
>keymaps, pagers, shells, etc, etc, etc.

>/kim

This is great in principle, but it makes it harder to share
(or include with applications) things like scripts, since the script
can't depend on wildcards, or command syntax.

Supposedly with DOS 2.0, you can make replacement shells easier - so
to customize things just use the shell of your choice.

It is important though to be able to depend on AmigaShell to exist
and stuff like wildcards to be the "standard" way.