Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!blars!blarson From: blarson@blars Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: <185@blars> Date: 3 Apr 91 06:04:51 GMT References: <44431@cos.com> <=baGj#dc1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@usc Reply-To: blarson@usc.edu Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: dianne.usc.edu Originator: blarson@dianne.usc.edu In article <=baGj#dc1@cs.psu.edu> schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes: > >In article <44431@cos.com> fetter@cos.com (Bob Fetter) writes: >| Well, one thing I've always liked from other systems is inline iteration. > >It interacts badly with command redirection. I had many unhappy >experiences with Primos for just that reason. Primos has pleany of problems with command redirection (like all primos i/o, it's all special cases and no generalization) but I don't see how any of them relate to command line iteration. (I'm not a newcomer to Primos, I've used 18.2 and 23.0 beta and most releases inbetween.) -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.