Xref: utzoo comp.arch:21170 comp.os.misc:1608 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: shell architecture (to glob or not to glob) Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 14:50:19 GMT References: <378@bria> <19062@cbmvax.commo <5615@awdprime.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.os.misc Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <5615@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes: > This seems to be a trivial and slightly amusing example of the problems > of standardizing switch notation with a legal filename character. Better than standardizing on unadorned keywords for switches. Try deleting a file named "all" on AmigaDOS. The problem here is that there are no spare characters you can type into the shell that aren't legal in UNIX file names. This is true on many recent operating systems, as the advantages of files named "Joe's Report Part #1" have become obvious. (what does this have to do with comp.arch?) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"