Re: Where does the sugar go? (was Re: Sort problem )

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 03:24

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From the keyboard of boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts):
: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 whatever.
:
:Yep, that really sucks.  Never do that.

Right.  If you want different behaviour, use a different option.  It's
rather difficult to emulate ttys, and if you can only get certain
output by doing so, it's a real pain.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
    If you have ever seen the grim word "login:" on a screen, your mind
    is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Death Star.
                John Woods in <14105@ksr.com> of comp.unix.bsd

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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Where does the sugar go? (was Re: Sort problem )
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Date: 3 Aug 92 03:24:46 GMT
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