Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Dumb Question, which I answered, then had another one.

[Dustin Sallings]

On Feb 27, 2004, at 16:06, Miles Bader wrote:

> What shell are you using?  Common shells don't interpret {} specially 
> unless
> there's a comma inside them.  [Well I mean bourne-style shells like 
> bash, I
> forget what csh does; does anyone still use that?]

        tcsh doesn't special case the comma:

dustin2wti:~ 503% echo {hell}o
hello
dustin2wti:~ 504% echo {hell,}o
hello o

> [None-the-less, I urge people: don't use {} in your archive paths -- 
> there's
> No Point, it's ugly, and it occasionally confuses people (or shells).]

	I agree.  If I want something, I'll register the archive no matter how 
ugly the URL is, but the documentation seems to suggest that you should 
use {}.

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Dustin Sallings