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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation, & flame to C-A
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Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 18:48:46 EST
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>In any case, to put in my 2 cents, I want to see the CLI do consistent
>file name expansion.  I don't want each individual program to do it in
>it's own way.  I don't have any problems with file name expansion with
>the unix shell, and I don't see why I would with my Amiga.

	ABSOLTELY NOT!.  Remember that most utilities *require* their
very own CLI.  If you make the CLI too big, the overhead for your favorite
utilities will go up to.  What I *do* want to see is some library support
(dos library) for executing processes will full I/O redirection with their
very own CLI attached.  

	To get the functionality, use a shell program (for instance, mine).

	NOW LOOK C-A, I'VE ENOUGH OF THIS SH#$%%T.  WILL YOU *PLEASE* POST
DOCUMENTATION ON BCPL STARTUP AND ALL THE STRANGE THINGS IT DOES TO THE
STDIO FILEHANDLES SO WE CAN WRITE AN EXEC() THAT WORKS!!!.  I thought I had
gotten an exec() that worked, but no, when I modify it to APPEND to the
output file instead of CREATE/TRUNCATE, the BCPL program fails to write
everything to the file.  Why the hell you didn't add this to the 1.2 DOS
library I'll never know.

						-Matt