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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.unix
Subject: Re: name=value or -n value?
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Date: Sun, 8-Apr-84 12:29:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  8 12:29:22 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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As to -option (or +option) being more common than >, <, or & in commands,

make >& errs &
(Bourne shell equivalent is "make >errs 2>&1 &")

is probably the most common command I type, with the possible
exception of

!!
(means replay last command to the Cshell)

so I'm not convinced.  Also, anything with more than one option per
command usually ends up in a makefile anyway, so where's the argument?


I'd kind of like to have a chording keyboard too:  it seems silly to
have to use two hands all the time.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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