From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447a948bb64464c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-15 19:38:27 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!demos1!glas!demos1!goldfinger.mitre.org!emery From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 14 Oct 94 14:16 GMT+0300 Subject: Re: I have a question... Message-ID: References: <1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix> Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway Date: 1994-10-14T14:16:00+00:00 List-Id: >I should say that if a UNIX program needs to ask the user for a file >name, something must be wrong with its design. Some Unix programs are filters. They read standard input, and write to standard output. This is a SMALL SUBSET of Unix programs. Compilers, for instance, may well ask for a filename if the user provides no filename on the command line. Thus this assertion (that a Unix program that has to ask for a filename is 'bad') is not valid. dave -- --The preceeding opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of --The MITRE Corporation or its sponsors. -- "A good plan violently executed -NOW- is better than a perfect plan -- next week" George Patton -- "Any damn fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you -- all screwed up" James Hollingsworth -------------------------------------------------------------------------