From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: @file
3 Mar 1998 05:58:59 -0800
Message-ID: <Ep8x0L.1sr.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <01BD468E DOT D3FFF7F0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <01BD468E DOT D3FFF7F0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Eric Bachalo wrote:
>> 
>> >One bad part about this is that some Unix programs expect arguments
>> >like "@foo".  For instance, finger.
>> >
>> >Tom
>> 
>> Agreed.  To get around the @host problem I suggest we use -@file instead of
>> @file.  Comments anyone?  
>> 
>> A quick grep of man pages shows that it would likely only conflict with
>> lout.  zip uses it but in a very similar way.
>> 
>
>What about a long option? Something like --indirect=file.

I like that.  It is less intrusive on the name space.

How about just telling people that they have to use 4DOS?  :-)
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