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#Macaroni (shells)

    21-May-89 07:52:11
Fm: M2S/Phil Camp 76004,2054
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
Yeah, but I often do DELETE #? and hit CTRL-C at a specific point. I guess I could also do this with shell expansion, except I would have to wait for the shell to first get all the names from the directory and then wait for DELETE to start deletng and then kill it when it reaches the point were I'd like it to stop. Hmm, about this for a nifty solution. When the user specifies wildcards, the shell redirects the input of the program to a pipe and then feeds the expanded names in this pipe. Of course, thie requires the shell to be a separate process, but it should work.