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  4. From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
  5. Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov13.213107.5722@chpc.utexas.edu>
  7. Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
  8. References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <aldavi01.721333614@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> <1992Nov13.094336.2341@aber.ac.uk>
  9. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:31:07 GMT
  10. Lines: 16
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  12. In article <1992Nov13.094336.2341@aber.ac.uk> btk@aber.ac.uk (Ben Ketteridge) writes:
  13. >From what you say about each of Bryan So cases of command-line problems, I take
  14. >it to mean that you think that it is _entirely_ the users' responsibility to
  15. >check that they don't type incorrect commands?
  16. >For example, just to take the 'cat a b > b' problem, you are suggesting IMHO 
  17. >that
  18. >the shell shouldn't check redirection of output against the input and warn the
  19. >user in this case.
  20.  
  21. Actually, I think this example should work!  It is a perfectly 
  22. reasonable request.  
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. Michael Lemke
  26. Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
  27. (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
  28.