Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!ultima!fidogate From: mark.newton@f805.n680.fido.oz.au (Mark Newton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPES Message-ID: <18788@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> Date: 10 Nov 90 14:31:48 GMT Sender: fido@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au Organization: A Fidonet node, gated through ultima.socs.uts.edu.au Lines: 10 Original to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com Some of C-Shell's metacharacters, namely those concerned with histroy, can be changed through the use of the "histchars" environment variable. Is there any reason why the pipe metachar can't me treated in a similar way under AmigaDos? Then you could use any pipe character you wanted. -mark --- TBBS v2.1/NM * Origin: ADAM, 2,100 MEGS R/W 32 line TBBS call us 08-370-5775 (680/805)