From: Carlo Strozzi <carlos@scriptaworks.com>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: Beta release rc-1.6b3 available
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:32:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011023223253.B17282@texne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023114431.3825.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk>; from tjg@star.le.ac.uk on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:44:31AM -0500
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:44:31AM -0500, Tim Goodwin wrote:
(...)
>
> You should be horrified at the use of Perl here, so compile the
I definitely am :-)
(...)
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> if (argv[1]) {
> struct passwd *p = getpwnam(argv[1]);
> if (p)
> puts(p->pw_dir);
(...)
Well, a nice piece of awk would fit equally well here. But apart from
that, of course my point was to have rc go well with the GNU realine
library (tab-completion and that), and the above does not really fit
the bill. On the other hand, one of the nice things abot rc is that
it has a small memory footprint, and adding features would make it
worse in that respect. I think I'll leave without tilde expansion,
and continue to use rc mostly for scripting :-)
Thanks anyway, and keep up with the good work.
bye,
carlo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 13:56 Tim Goodwin
2001-10-17 14:13 ` Buggs
2001-10-17 14:34 ` Tim Goodwin
2001-10-17 21:13 ` Buggs
[not found] ` <20011019004843.A429@gc.wirefire.com>
2001-10-19 17:14 ` Tim Goodwin
2001-10-22 6:47 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-10-24 3:25 ` Chris Siebenmann
2001-10-24 3:41 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-10-23 7:55 ` Carlo Strozzi
2001-10-23 12:44 ` Tim Goodwin
2001-10-23 21:32 ` Carlo Strozzi [this message]
2001-10-24 3:34 ` Chris Siebenmann
2001-10-24 8:04 ` Carlo Strozzi
2001-10-23 15:47 ` Markus Friedl
2001-10-23 21:09 ` Carlo Strozzi
2001-10-23 15:55 ` Sam Roberts
2001-10-23 21:14 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-10-26 23:57 Gary Carvell
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