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Date: 14 Oct 94 19:46 GMT+0300
Subject: Re: I have a question...
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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

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