Re: Can I put a ^M on a command line somehow?

From: Kenny McCormack (gazelle_at_yin.interaccess.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:26:44 GMT

In article <slrncj95hi.1lg.stephane.chazelas@spam.is.invalid>,
Stephane CHAZELAS <this.address@is.invalid> wrote:
>2004-08-31, 07:58(-07), Dana French:
>[...]
>> And just to provide a justification for the K93_Unix library at all,
>> let me outline the purpose of this library:
>>
>> First and foremost, K93_Unix is a marketing tool for me to display and
>> illustrate a portion my shell programming abilities.
>>
>> Second, K93_Unix is a teaching tool. I use this as a reference while
>> teaching Korn Shell programming for Learning Tree International.
>[...]
>
>Doing such complicated things (especially things that don't
>involve external utilities [so, by essence, things that don't
>necessitate a shell but a programming language]) with a shell is
>a choice error to me, as I consider shells as not suitable as
>programming languages, but that has already been discussed in
>that group, see
>http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=slrnbfiode.42.stephane_chazelas@pcchazelas.free.fr

(O/T) I don't consider SQL to be a programming language, but you'd be
surprised how some people are able to do the most amazing things in it.

I.e., I agree with you about shell not being appropriate for use as
a full-blown programming language, but I hear tell that there now exists
a shell with a tax-preparation module built-in.

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