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From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore confirms 1.3 rumor
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Date: 30 Jan 88 03:38:05 GMT
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Reply-To: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
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Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) wrote:
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...point someone asked "Will 1.3 support Pipes?"  They Rep answered "YES,
...1.3 will support pipes."  This is one of the first real solid confirmed
...	-Ken Baer.  					 

Hmmmm.... I am pretty sure that you are mistaken in your interpretation.
I put more creed in the rumors that we will see autoboot roms, fast
file system, useable printer drivers (ie. fast finally), and IEEE
library that supports '881 automatically.

Bill Hawes is rumored to be working on his own CLI that will have things
like built in pipes (since he rewrote the CLI he can do any pre-parsing
that he wants), but don't look to Commodore to rewrite the CLI today,
maybe down the road.  Problem is that CLI is code that sits in ROM, if
they do any mucking with it it would probably only be experimental,
like the Resident-CLI (anybody remember that) in the Gamma 1.2 release.

I would love to see the CLI rewritten for 1.4 so that you can do things
more Unix like.  I am glad that we have Environmental variables (thanks
Manx!), but I want aliases.  Not alias this name = that name, but true
this string = that string.  I want to do: alias "rm" "rm -i".  Even
Metacompco Shell doesn't have that.  Also along the lines of pipes, 
if I can do pipes:  dir | more, than can't I do more than one command on
a line?  That would lead to alias "cd" "cd !*;prompt 'pwd'", or whatever!
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