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From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] The ^ = | ?
Date: 24 Jan 2003 08:07:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <854r7z9gay.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301240537.h0O5bjd60797@minnie.tuhs.org>

Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> From my memory of Salus' book, the > syntax was relaced by ^, but
> when Ken went to the U.K to give a talk, he made the decision to
> switch over to the | symbol.
> 
> Anyway, I could be completely wrong about this being in Salus'
> book, so if I am, I'll have to hunt down where this info came from.

You are right.  Pages 51-53 (in the 1995 reprint).

-- 
Lars Brinkhoff          http://lars.nocrew.org/     Linux, GCC, PDP-10,
Brinkhoff Consulting    http://www.brinkhoff.se/    HTTP programming



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24  3:09 Norman Wilson
2003-01-24  5:37 ` Warren Toomey
2003-01-24  7:07   ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2003-01-24 10:32 ` Sven Mascheck
2003-01-26  1:40 ` Greg Lehey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-25  8:46 Wolfgang Helbig
2003-01-24  2:09 Carl Lowenstein
2003-01-24  0:04 John Holden
2003-01-23 12:25 Lange, David
2003-01-24  0:05 ` M. Warner Losh

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