X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <438B0DE6.8070903@equate.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:02:14 +0000 From: Chris Taylor Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS? References: <20051127150708 DOT 87610 DOT qmail AT web35709 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> <438AD84E DOT 3000508 AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org> <438B058B DOT 7020601 AT byu DOT net> <438B065E DOT 1000106 AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org> <438B09A5 DOT 6080504 AT byu DOT net> In-Reply-To: <438B09A5.6080504@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: > >>The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is >>deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it >>makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. You're right though, it is a >>lot easier to read and nest, and vastly easier to read it when nested.. > > > Nope - POSIX has not deprecated ``. See > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03. > And portable scripts, per the rules in the autoconf documentation, MUST > use `` instead of $(). Based on the body of existing scripts that use ``, > I doubt that POSIX will ever deprecate ``. > Fair enough :) I shall reeducate my friend on that point then. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this world into a slumber. Wake up! An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all that you are and everything that you will never be. Yes, an eye is upon you, an eye ready to blink. So face forward, with arms wide open and mind reeling. Your future has arrived... Are you ready to go? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/