> > if ["$Mac" -ne "00:00:00:00:00:00"]; then *<<<<<==== LINE 22* > > Seriously, anybody who designs a language with the "*sh" langauges > really weird expression syntax is pleading for sorrow.
No sorrow from me, but perhaps a rap over the knuckles ;)) I suspect the reason for the design lies in the attempt to keep everything in the simple program arg1 arg2 arg3 ... structure which is used a lot in programming, and the state of computer hardware at the time the language was designed. But let's not complain - it beats the Redmond Rubbish(TM) command script by several orders of magnitude! tcsh did manage to avoid the expression syntax madness, but had too many design and implementation bugs of its own. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
