CompuServe Messages

The shell cannot (and should not) impose any ordering on the commands, that means there can be no distinction (on the part of the shell) between, say: cat *.c *.x and mv *.c *.x In the first, all files ending in .c and .x will be displayed, in the second, an error message will result (under unix), but it would be nice to have all the files renamed as desired. Another (disastrous) example is cat * and rm * the Unix rm cannot easily ask if you really want to wipe out your days work, because it would have to ask if you really want to cat all the files. sdb