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Re: PIPES

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From: Peter da Silva
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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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
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