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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PIPES
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Date: 9 Dec 90 09:07:08 GMT
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In  <7218@sugar.hackercorp.com> (7 Dec),
Peter da Silva (peter@sugar.hackercorp.com) writes:
> In article <18788@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> mark.newton@f805.n680.fido.oz.au (Mark Newton) writes:
|>  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.

        -- Another minor nitpick... I thought I already suggested this
        a couple of weeks back...!(:-))
>
> A good idea, though make it a shell-local variable rather than an environment
> variable so you can set it in a script without screwing up everything else on
> the system. Remember, Amiga environment variables are system-global.

I think it would be still better to have BOTH, so that you can let the user
set his favourite once and forget it, and still allow scripts their own
special preference if they need it.

                                                -- Pete --