Re: I have a question...

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

>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
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