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From: Gary Carvell <gcarvell@wirefire.com>
To: Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: New rc snapshot, includes "the equals hack"
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:21:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000814232148.A1027@lorax.wirefire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LnkAAEL5kzlQtg0A@ltsun0.star.le.ac.uk>; from tjg@star.le.ac.uk on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:01:32AM -0500

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:01:32AM -0500, Tim Goodwin wrote:
> What do you think?  Should the equals hack stay?
> 
> Tim.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Keep it!!! (Sorry :-) I will be downloading
the snapshot ASAP to try this out. Your two examples, dd and
configure, are in fact the only times I ever drop into sh -
just can't stand typing all those quotes for all the command
line arguments. It may be a tiny hack, but a definite big
usability win.

Gary

-- 
Gary Carvell
gcarvell@wirefire.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-15  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-11 14:01 Tim Goodwin
2000-08-15  2:21 ` Paul Haahr
2000-08-15  4:21 ` Gary Carvell [this message]
2000-08-15 14:52 ` Mark K. Gardner
2000-08-15  6:41 Byron Rakitzis
2000-08-15  7:28 Byron Rakitzis
2000-08-15 14:32 smd
2000-08-15 22:51 ` Smarasderagd
2000-08-17  3:53   ` Decklin Foster
2000-08-21 23:21     ` Chris Siebenmann
2000-08-22 11:51       ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-08-17 10:49   ` Tim Goodwin
2000-08-15 20:25 smd
2000-08-18 21:14 Bengt Kleberg
2000-08-22  0:28 Byron Rakitzis
2000-08-22 23:23 ` Chris Siebenmann
2000-08-23  1:03 Byron Rakitzis

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