Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Plus (Re: PIPEs (really: Slices)) Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 20:26:35 GMT References: <6997@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov7.235254.13959@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <7025@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Nov12.101531.19828@agate.berkeley.edu> <7032@sugar.hackercorp.com> <7054@sugar.hackercorp.com> Lines: 32 >In article <7054@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >> One more thing I'd like to inject into the pipe discussion is that the '+' >> mechanism is not unique to the 'run' command. You can use it after >> any command, and it will load the command and wait for you to press enter. > >A good question, I hope, since I have RTFM and I still can't figure it out... > >How do you access the stuff the user types in after the +? Huh?!? Either you're not making sense, or I'm not making myself clear... :-) Try this: Pretend you have a 1-drive system. cd to your workbench volume. type: 'dir +' insert a different disk in the same drive. press enter. you get a directory listing.... What I meant was to not mess this up if you start messing with the meaning of '+' with your piping scheme. Am I making sense? >Peter da Silva. `-_-' -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |