From: James Matthew Farrow <matty@cs.su.OZ.AU>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: comments, newlines
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 17:31:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19920315183107.28843.frobozz@karl.cs.su.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9203141939.AA22325@burn.Princeton.EDU>
I am in favour of John's view. I always getting caught by special
characters ([=~#]) always being special and having to quote them which
makes commands look really ugly and less readable sometimes. For
example, the
What's wrong with
lpr -Gr2 -#3 foo.ps
? Why doesn't it print anything ? Do you really prefer
lpr -Gr2 -'#'3 foo.ps
? Is that better syntax ? Is it more readable ?
that Emin mentioned.
Matty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-03-15 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-03-14 19:39 Emin G. Sirer
1992-03-15 23:31 ` James Matthew Farrow [this message]
1992-03-15 17:54 ` schwartz
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1992-03-11 17:27 haahr
1992-03-12 22:05 ` David J. Fiander
1992-03-13 10:14 ` John Mackin
1992-03-13 22:44 ` Dave Mason
1992-03-11 7:19 schwartz
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