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  3. From: btk@aber.ac.uk (Ben Ketteridge)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc
  5. Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov13.094336.2341@aber.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 13 Nov 92 09:43:36 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <aldavi01.721333614@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
  9. Sender: btk@aber.ac.uk (Benjamin Thomas Ketteridge)
  10. Organization: The Cottage of the 2 Bears, Aberystwyth.
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  14. From what you say about each of Bryan So cases of command-line problems, I take
  15. it to mean that you think that it is _entirely_ the users' responsibility to
  16. check that they don't type incorrect commands?
  17. For example, just to take the 'cat a b > b' problem, you are suggesting IMHO that
  18. the shell shouldn't check redirection of output against the input and warn the
  19. user in this case.
  20.  
  21. ciao
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