Les Mikesell wrote:
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?
Who said I like UNIX-like systems and like UNIX shells?
:-)
Mike
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