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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram)
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Subject: Re: Bickering
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 13:17:56 EDT
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>  From: apollo!nazgul@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Kee Hinckley)
>
>  Incidentally, I think someone once complained that the Aegis shell didn't even
>  have parallel pipes.  I almost changed that at SR8, only to discover that a
>  number of people were doing things like: "catf file | srf > file"
>  (translation: "cat file | sort > file") and making any changes would break
>  them quite badly.  Sigh.

My feeling is that disallowing "catf file | srf > file" is no worse than
disallowing "srf file > file" (which many naive users also tend to do), and
the advantages of parallel pipes outweigh this minor disadvantage anyway
(e.g., having partial results output on the screen so that you can work with
them while the command runs to completion).  For the same reason, it would be
nice if LD .../?*.PAS, for example, printed your Pascal files as it listed
them (similar to LS -R), rather than all together at the end.

-- Ashwin Ram --

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