> Mhhh... maybe that's something which could be done in ksh93... CC:'ing
> the ast-users mailinglist - maybe someone there has an idea how this
> behaviour could be emulated via ksh93... the tricky part is that '>' is
> actually a special shell symbol which is AFAIK interpreted before the
> command ("print") itself... ;-/Yes, it's a messy problem from an API separation point of view. > > BTW: Is this a feature of the original "dbx" or was that added later by > Sun ? This was added by Sun many moons ago. I would really like a clean dbx internal API so we could support writing dbx scripts in perl or ruby or whatever. But for interactive users, they won't want to put single quotes around every single language expression. Such language expressions are too common. Any ideas for how to approach this usability issue would greatly appreciated. --chris
