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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Follow the true Way -- A PLEA!! for good program design.
Keywords: AREXX , *
Message-ID: <7068@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 13:26:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.080652.28036@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <1990Nov17.080652.28036@watcsc.waterloo.edu> psop@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Paul Sop) writes:
> I want everyone, from now on, everywhere, who owns an amiga, to, when
> they write AREXX programs (note! I didn't say 'Scripts'), include the
> following **EXTREMELY IMPORTANT** line:

> call close 'STDIN';call open 'STDIN','*','R'

I hope you only do this for interactive programs, because otherwise it makes
it pretty hard to do something like:

	rx <textfile program

Or, for that matter:

	program | rx program

Should you have a sufficiently capable shell. And even for interactive work
I've occasionally had reason to do something like:

	dir <file ?

Where the file was the result of some automatic processing of (say) list
output.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.