From: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgar
Subject: Re: I have a question...
Date: 14 Oct 94 19:46 GMT+0300
Date: 1994-10-14T19:46:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SPIEGEL.94Oct14174656@berlin.bru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix
Keith Thompson writes:
> Note that the vast majority of Unix programs do *not* support '~'
> expansion (or environment variable expansion, or wildcard expansion).
> This job is normally left to the shell. I strongly recommend that you
> do the same.
I strongly agree on that. In my opinion, Ada programs intended to run
on UNIX machines should behave as UNIX-like as possible, which means,
for example, to use the command line, and the standard input and output
streams as the main, if not the only means of communication.
I should say that if a UNIX program needs to ask the user for a file
name, something must be wrong with its design.
--
Andre Spiegel | This life is a test. It is only a test.
| Had this been an actual life, you would
University of Stuttgart, Germany | have received further instructions as to
Computer Science | where to go and what to do.
-- Author unknown
email: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-10-14 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix>
1994-10-14 11:16 ` I have a question emery
1994-10-14 16:46 ` spiegel [this message]
1994-10-15 16:52 ` ncohen
[not found] <1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>
[not found] ` <SPIEGEL.94Oct10115716@moskau.bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
1994-10-12 17:33 ` David Emery
1994-10-14 1:21 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-10-14 16:46 ` Andre Spiegel
1994-10-14 14:16 ` David Emery
1994-10-14 21:32 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-10-15 11:28 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-10-14 7:38 ` Henri Altarac
1994-10-14 21:25 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-13 17:13 ` James A. Krzyzanowski
1994-10-13 15:29 ` David Emery
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox