Re: Meta question w/rt list

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: > Would it be a bad thing to set mail-list software to automatically > default to the list as the 'default' response, and the user would > have to address an email, manually, to not respond to the list? If there were a good mail header to use then it would be a good thing. But t

Meta question w/rt list

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Saw these come not far apart -- and I had to "restart" an email or two when I noticed that pressing "reply" didn't go to the list as it does on some lists. Bob Proulx wrote: Please keep the mailing list in the CC so that others may participate in the discussion and enable it to be available in t

RFE? |> ?

2007-12-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I was wondering about a possible RFE and whether or not it is "inadvisable" or not. I'd be surprised if no one had thought of it -- so maybe there is a problem in doing it. Just like: &>word#(preferred syntax) and >&word are semantically equivalent to ">word 2>&1" Has it be

Re: recursive functions in bash

2007-12-10 Thread Chet Ramey
davedoom wrote: > I am trying to learn to write recursive functions in bash. As one of my > first attempts i wrote this program to emulate the system provided tac > command: > > after playing with it for a good bit, it no longer produces this error > message: > malloc: ../bash/subst.c:4135: asser