ksh incompatabilities with sh?
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at vsi.UUCP
Sun Jun 12 10:47:34 AEST 1988
In article <16094 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Do people *actually* still use ^ for pipes?
In article <36911 at ccicpg.UUCP>, nick at ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
<
< Some terminals have ^ but not |. [certain] terminals do not have any of
< the characters {}\`|, Escape or Control, using Unix on them is near
< impossible, so we insist > on supplying at least one normal terminal.
Great! Trigraphs for the shell! :-)
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Nancy Reagan on ptr args with a prototype in scope: "Just say NULL"
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