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jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	Or, you could put the template in the program, and one of the first
>things the program does is call the Dos routine that parses arguments, and
>call the Dos routine that expands wildcards.  Suprise, guess what, these
>calls are in the OS and the new C commands use them.

Glad to hear "they're in there" finally at least.  I hope that they'll
do Unix style flag parsing if asked (although I doubt it somehow). 

>	Having the expansion done in the program does make the system somewhat
>more flexible, and reduces the amount of quoting that users have to deal
>with.  It's a tradeoff, of course, and there are thigns to be said for
>both sides, but I think that when non-expert user interface issues are taken
>into account the current system is best.

I really think that having the application program not handle any
quoting or expansion would be a real plus.  That way, I can have the
shell do expansion via my wildcards (Hey, I like the "mumble" wildcard
better than '*' or '#?', ie: mumble.info representing all the files
ending in .info), and I can depend on being able to pass all 256 ascii
characters in command arguments, without worrying about the program not
doing quoting.

>	BTW, the hunk idea is right out, due to loadfile compatibility issues.

Hmm, if it's a 2.0 program, it requires 2.0 to run.  Judging from the
number of new toys in 2.0 I keep hearing about, I'd suggest that a
rather large number of programs will require it.

In any case, if a program requires the arg parsing you mention above, a
similar compatibility issue comes up - it's not backwards compatible to
1.3.  Neither is its load file.

>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
>{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
>Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "If your application does not run correctly,
>do not blame the operating system."  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)
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