Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 89 10:29:30 GMT References: <6275@cbmvax.UUCP> <0776.AA0776@julie> <0856.AA0856@julie> <6420@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 35 In-reply-to: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 29 Mar 89 02:10:29 GMT In article <6420@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: > What I meant is that for almost all people who use unix the fact that >a shell is "just another program" isn't important, only the features are >important. I meant that few people write shells, even hackers. Pretty much true. But for many it's comforting to know that they COULD easily replace the shell, were they so inclined. [though one of the complexity of sh, csh, ksh, tcsh, etc. is no small project...] [...] > Note the "get used to it". Also note that we are not the >people I was refering to: I was refering to the generic user who buys >an amiga, and in general is not horribly computer-literate to begin >with, or is only slightly literate in one of >msdos/C64/mac/Apple-II/ST/etc. You know, _users_. The generic user is NEVER going to see the sense in "#?" as a wildcard. Not all generic users WANT to use graphical interfaces, though many do. It is a very poor assumption to make that ALL do... [...] > Within limits stated before: BCPL programs can't share filehandles. >NEVER Close() the result of Output(). Don't pass it off and exit, wait until >the other process is done with it. Well, you COULD have the child Close(Output()), if the parent and child agree the child is to do so, but it is definitely a poor programming style, and hence very strongly discouraged... but legal. Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.