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Article #7257Re: PIPES
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 12:10
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 12:10
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In article <18788@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> mark.newton@f805.n680.fido.oz.au (Mark Newton) writes: > Some of C-Shell's metacharacters, namely those concerned with histroy, can be > changed through the use of the "histchars" environment variable. (minor irrelevant nitpick, not all Cshells allow this. Sigh) > Is there any reason why the pipe metachar can't me treated in a similar way > under AmigaDos? Then you could use any pipe character you wanted. A good idea, though make it a shell-local variable rather than an environment variable so you can set it in a script without screwing up everything else on the system. Remember, Amiga environment variables are system-global. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPES Message-ID: <7218@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 12:10:23 GMT References: <18788@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15