From:	ebachalo AT cygnus DOT com (Eric Bachalo)
Subject:	Re: @file
2 Mar 1998 18:01:23 -0800 :
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To:	tromey AT cygnus DOT com
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>One bad part about this is that some Unix programs expect arguments
>like "@foo".  For instance, finger.
>
>Tom

Agreed.  To get around the @host problem I suggest we use -@file instead of
@file.  Comments anyone?  

A quick grep of man pages shows that it would likely only conflict with
lout.  zip uses it but in a very similar way.


Best Regards,

Eric Bachalo

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