🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1253@uknet.ac.uk>, 
tlg@uknet.ac.uk (Tim.Goodwin) writes:
|> In article <84902@netnews.upenn.edu> chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz) writes:
|> >I agree, but I often wonder what to do with the output "sugar", such
|> >as prompts or headers, which are not well suited for filtering.
|> >...
|> 
|> UNIX is (was) a diet OS.  Sugar free.
|> 
|> I fume every time I want to say
|> 
|>     sccs delget `sccs info`
|> 
|> but can't.  This "sugar" is bitter to my taste.
|> 
|> Pragmatically, why not turn on the sugar with a command line flag?

Or have 2 commands as sccs has, info and tell.

The suggestion of using 3> isn't a bad one either (apart from
compatability with old scripts). We could have a stdsugar that pointed
to fd 3 if it was open otherwise to stdout. Then of course we could add
a shell redirection of *> to catch all when we wanted that. Maybe thats
something for plan 9 or hurd to thing of, SunOS only has 64 file
descriptors.

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Michael Salmon

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