Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!arcsun!kenw From: kenw@skyler.calarc.ARC.AB.CA (Ken Wallewein) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set -> OK, OK! Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 12:49:49 GMT References: <1991Jan14.170115.17178@Think.COM> <11390@lanl.gov> <5371@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991Jan15.053904.2881@Think.COM> Sender: nobody@arc.ab.ca (Absolutely Nobody) Followup-To: comp.os.misc Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary Alberta, Canada Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: barmar@think.com's message of 15 Jan 91 05:39:04 GMT It is quite practical to have the shell do the parsing, BTW. All one needs is a way to tell the shell about the syntax of the command. Once the mechanism is in place, one gets a major improvement in consitancy of command syntax, and a powerful tool for managing it. But it's not the Unix Way, and therefor heathen. -- /kenw Ken Wallewein A L B E R T A kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca R E S E A R C H (403)297-2660 C O U N C I L