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- From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
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- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:23:12 GMT
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- In article <EEIDE.92Nov12154722@asylum.cs.utah.edu> eeide%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Eric Eide) writes:
- >
- >It sounds as if you are proposing the invention of an application-independent
- >command line parser that does more than just syntactic processing (as provided
- >by getopt()). This would definitely be interesting -- but is it really
- >possible? What would it look like? What would the universal meaning of `-l'?
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- Didn't the opsys on the DEC-20 (twenex?) do this? I think it even
- allowed 'completion' of more than just filetypes - however, it *did*
- involve firing up the binary of the program a bit earlier because
- there was some incestuous relationship between the command's code
- and the command line interpreter. Essentially, the command had
- a section of code that could be called by the interpreter to
- "assist" parsing.
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- Twenex gurus feel free to correct me.
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- Valdis Kletnieks
- Computer Systems Engineer
- Virginia Tech
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