Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!mb
From: mb@munnari.oz (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: suggestion for next release of shell
Message-ID: <2100@munnari.oz>
Date: 2 May 88 02:10:31 GMT
References: <914@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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In article <914@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>I had an idea for a future version of Matt/Steve's shell.  If the first
>character typed [...]

... which reminds me of a very strange undocumented feature in shell
which I haven't seen discussed: If the first character typed on the
command line is a numeric that lines gets eaten, as if it were a comment.

As this is done quite deliberately (look at the source), this cannot be
called a bug. But why? What's wrong with a program "1off"?