Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!ranjit From: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Devices in general Message-ID: <6553@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 6 Dec 88 05:20:42 GMT References: <5816@louie.udel.EDU> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 23 A suggested device that would make certain things very convenient: SHELL:invokes your favorite shell (named in an environment variable?), attaches its input and output, and gives it the as the command line. Actually, rather than an arbitrary shell, it should probably just do a CLI, to conserve memory and give a predictable environment. kermit download to "shell:uncompress >ram:foo" save file as "shell:csh -c 'detab|indent|format>ram:foo'" Nothing that couldn't be done with pipes, but you wouldn't have to flip back and forth between the application and the shell to get the thing done. - Ranjit "Trespassers w" ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu mailrus!eecae!netnews!eniac!... -- I'm not a drug enforcement agent, but I play one for TV -- Giant SDI lasers burn 1,000 points of light in Willie Horton - Dave Barry