On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > I didn't see the words "unix-like shell behavior" in what > you just quoted, so I didn't respond to those words. I did > repond to the words I saw used. > > I see no reason not to exercise caution in raising expectations > in people's minds about the behavior of software across multiple > platforms in unspecified circumstances. Caution is one thing, but expecting reasonable behavior from a unix shell is reasonable, given that you could easily have shell scripts and interactive operations that have worked unchanged for 25 years across wildly different machines. Isn't that why we like unix-like systems and their bourne-like shells? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
