Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh incompatabilities with sh?
Summary: Briandamaged terminals
Message-ID: <712@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 00:47:34 GMT
References: <16094@brl-adm.ARPA> <36911@ccicpg.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 15

In article <16094@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Do people *actually* still use ^ for pipes?

In article <36911@ccicpg.UUCP>, nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
< 
< Some terminals have ^ but not |. [certain] terminals do not have any of
< the characters {}\`|, Escape or Control, using Unix on them is near
< impossible, so we insist > on supplying at least one normal terminal.

Great!  Trigraphs for the shell! :-)
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Nancy Reagan on ptr args with a prototype in scope: "Just say NULL"