Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!hoey@nrl-aic.ARPA From: hoey@nrl-aic.ARPA (Dan Hoey) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: unix file system Message-ID: <762@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:50:29 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.762 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:50:29 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:33:04 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 21 >From: cudcv@daisy.warwick.UUCP (Rob McMahon) >Date: 7 Aug 85 10:25:12 GMT >>> basic problem with the UNIX file system for FORTRAN. >> >>You must also rewrite "cat," because I can copy a file by saying cat a >b . > >It's worse than that - the shell creates `b', and it's got no idea what >sort of file to create, It's even worse than that. ``cat'' can take more than one argument, hence its name. What do *you* want to happen when you concatenate files with different record sizes, character sets, etc. >maybe the shell should be changed to include a syntax >like `>[ASCII,RECORDSIZE=80,ANSICC]b' ! Ulch! Maybe we should begin each command with "//" and use space for a comment character. Dan