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- From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.224718.15935@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
- References: <EEIDE.92Nov12120339@asylum.cs.utah.edu> <1992Nov12.193707.27532@chpc.utexas.edu> <BARNETT.92Nov13093417@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 22:47:18 GMT
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- In article <BARNETT.92Nov13093417@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.193707.27532@chpc.utexas.edu> michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke) writes:
- >> Well, fixing typos is neat but it is not the essential problem. My
- >> main complaint about Unix on the user interface level is that there is
- >> no command line interpreter. What I mean is that after the shell munged
- >> your command line it is *completely* up to the program to interpret the
- >> command line and there is no system function available to parse even
- >> these `standard' options.
- >
- >Some look at this as an advantage. You are probably complaining about
- >the inability to perform
- > rename *.old *.new
- >
-
- No, I don't. I am complaining that the options are a) parsed
- inconsistently (`bla -lx a' might be valid and `bla -l x a' not but
- `foo -l x a ' is ok and `foo -lx a' is not) and b) that -l means long
- for ls -l but library for f77 -l. I want ls -long and f77 -library and
- be able to abbreviate both -long and -library because `long' and
- `library' is what I mean and not -l.
-
- I am not addressing the question of parameter substitution and I/O
- redirection at all as you do in the rest of your post. That would open
- a whole new can of worms.
-
- [worms eaten by the fish]
-
- >
- >
- >It sounds like most of your problem is due to the large number of UNIX
- >utilities. How many does DOS have?
-
- No idea. I don't know DOS.
-
- --
- Michael Lemke
- Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
- (michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
-