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From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 questions and comments
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.235314.804@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 23:53:14 GMT
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Dave,
> >3.     Why doesn't the "list" command have a sort option (like the "dir"  
> >command)?                                                                 
>                                                                            
> Ideally, you should just be able to pipe list into sort.  I tried this     
> under 1.3, which in WShell would just be "list | sort", but it didn't work.
> Sort requires both input and output files to be named; it doesn't default  
> to stdin and stdout.  Hopefully the 2.0 version does.

Ahh, the problem is that you are still using the C= sort (Hi Dave :-)!
I can do `list | sort' (er, `ls -1 | sort') from the WShell.  I don't
for the reason you sight, namely ls has that option builtin.

You could get a real version of sort (In this case, a real version
is one that acts as a filter, of course... :-).  Hate to say it,
but quite a few of the standard C= commands have problems acting
in filter mode.  I dumped them a long time ago...
More (on 1.3 and before at least) can't even be used in filter mode!
I use a locally hacked version of less (mine does not open unnecessary
windows).

Loren J. Rittle
-- 
``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would not* be made to directly support the
  Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' -A scene at the
  recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
  worried about one little Amiga Device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu