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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 1994-10-16 22:26:00 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de!spiegel From: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andre Spiegel) Subject: Re: I have a question... In-Reply-To: kst@alsys.com's message of Fri, 14 Oct 1994 01:21:10 GMT [ 14 Oct 1994 02:21:10 MET ] Message-ID: Sender: news@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Organization: University of Stuttgart, Germany References: <1994Oct07.034523.161470@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:46:56 GMT Date: 1994-10-14T16:46:56+00:00 List-Id: 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