On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:58:09AM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > That is indeed a problem. I remember reading an interview with one of > the Unix creators (maybe it was Richie?) about what dissapointed him > in modern Unix/Linux versions, and he mentioned that he thought it was > silly that there where still so many arbitrary system limits
hurd fixes all that. that's a place for innovation. unix/linux will probably remain stuck because so many people fear change. > It may make sense to allow you to specify a history name for the read > builtin. That way you can write shellscripts which prompy the user and > provide a history unique to that script. yes, please. that sounds very useful. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
