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From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
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Subject: Re: CLI features
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Date: 30 Apr 91 07:21:44 GMT
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In article <91119.163516UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>Really?  Hooray!  Hooray!  Will you be able to add the "background
>operator" at the end of the line, too?  As in
>
>$ command -x -y -z foo bar &
>
>Instead of
>
>> run command .....

Not with the standard CLI, I don't think.  The annoying thing about it is
that although 

1.Ram Disk:> list ram:*

will work,

1.Ram Disk:> list *

still tries to list stdin.  And, there aren't unnamed pipes as far as
I know (i.e. you can't say "list | more").

Maybe somebody out there will write a shell that implements &, |, *, 
and filename completion (all optionally to maintain compatibility).

  -Logan
-- 
   //  # "He said that He had your number; you cut the telephone line.
 \X/   #  You said you needed a reason; He said 'there ain't much time.'
 Logan #  You kept trying to avoid it; He kept knocking on the door.
 Shaw  #  In a flash it was over; you were a prisoner of war."  -Rez Band