Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new documentation progress

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:44:00 -0800, Robert Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:48:33 -0800 (PST), Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > I've been working up some new docs in "handbook" format.
> > It's not done yet but there's enough to get the sense:
> > 
> >   http://www.seyza.com/src/docs-tla/my/id.html
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >   http://www.gnuarch.org/src/docs-tla/my/id.html
> > 
> > I'm open to "early feedback" at this stage although
> > the development pace for these docs is very fast
> > so it won't be "early" for long :-)
> 
> Tom,
> 
> The {archive} convention has been the source of no end of trouble on
> my team by csh and tcsh users, all of whom pretty much learned to hate
> GNU arch right out of the gates after struggling with this.  There's
> all kinds of escaping headaches associated with {} in csh and tcsh.
> 
> I know, "fix your darn shell" and all that, but really, get real.  csh
> and tcsh will be around for decades and nobody's going to fix them. 
> That's the reality.

And it's not a problem only for csh derivatives, but pretty much for
each and every shell in common use on unix.

Also the shell needs to give some characters special meanings to get
things done and they will always need escaping. So why not leave it
those that were already chosen?

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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