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Yeah. For purity and consistency, I tried to get TD to forget
about prompting in rc, just have it run commands, but he
caved in to pressure from less clean-minded people.

-rob


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> since the idea is that what i see from
> 	ls
> should be a good guide to what grep sees in
> 	ls | grep '\.c'
> then yes, that isatty is indeed a bad idea

mind you, plan 9 isn't entirely innocent in this
respect, c.f. /sys/src/cmd/rc/exec.c:/Isatty

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