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boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>In article <1992Aug2.143248.25046@druid.uucp>, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>> Or do like ls(1) and find out if the output device is a tty, pipe or  ...
>Yep, that really sucks.  Never do that.

I do that in a program I hacked, except that the non-interactive output
is visually identical to the interactive output, the only difference
being that the program doesn't bother chatting to the user while deciding
whether it shall generate some particular output.  It's easier to process
a line of output when it doesn't start "string\cstring\cstring\c...".

This program, btw, scans machines for users logged on.  It shows you
the machine it's asking, then wipes it out if there's no-one logged on.

On the main thread of the discussion, sugar should go to stdout, and
there should be a flag to turn it on or off.  (Which the program I
was just discussed has for it's headings...)


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