From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lorax.myhouse.org ([63.79.38.134]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <44227>; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 01:49:33 -0500 Received: from mail.wirefire.com (gary@localhost) by lorax.myhouse.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e7F3LmI01411; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:21:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:21:48 -0500 From: Gary Carvell To: Tim Goodwin Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: New rc snapshot, includes "the equals hack" Message-ID: <20000814232148.A1027@lorax.wirefire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; 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