On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:11:30AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Laurence Berland writes:
> > Optimally, you could write a urlsh or something, and leave everyone else
> > alone. The shell could do substitutions on URLs just like they do on
> > wildcards etc, and the applications would not need to be rewritten, plus
> > you wouldn't add bloat to those of us who don't want this in the system...
> It is possible if interfaces of utilities is fully standartized.
> For example -p flag in any command means port number.
Actually, that's not true. The scp manpage says:
-p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
original file.
Also, tar has the same flag with the same meaning.
> Such as
>
> mutt -l user -h host.domain
>
> as legal alternative of
>
> mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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