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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!blekul11!ffaac09
- Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
- Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 18:20:41 +01
- From: Paul Bijnens <FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Message-ID: <92353.182041FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
- Subject: Re: A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix
- References: <1992Dec12.224109.15621@cs.mcgill.ca> <2527@ispi.COM>
- <zierke.724493009@rzdspc24> <id.87XV.OQH@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.87XV.OQH@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) says:
- >
- >Agreed. NO program on UNIX should EVER use the
- >
- > command inputfile [outputfile]
- >
- >syntax. It's dangerous, counterintuitive (you can't use it as a filter), and
- >inflexible. Indent does the same thing, which is why I have indent in a script
- >that does "indent -st" here.
-
- And don't forget "uniq"; it hasn't even a flag... :-(
-
- Does anyone actually USE the behaviour of such programs?
- (I mean: specifying the outputfile as an optional second argument)
- Will there a lot of scripts be broken when you change this stupid
- syntax?
- --
- Paul Bijnens -- MS-DOS is the world's most widespread virus.
- Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
- Polleke@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
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