jimmy@.cs.UAlberta.CA (Jimmy the X-Man) (03/05/91)
What is ISIS ? If this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this question, my apologies. Please mail responses to the address below. Thanks, jimmy@cs.UAlberta.CA -- jimmy@cs.UAlberta.CA
bzhang@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bin Zhang) (03/14/91)
In article <1991Mar4.174553.20179@cs.UAlberta.CA> jimmy@.cs.UAlberta.CA (Jimmy the X-Man) writes: > >What is ISIS ? If this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this >question, my apologies. Please mail responses to the address below. > If you meant CDS/ISIS, it is a text information retrieval package developed by UNESCO, UN. There are two versions: VAX and IBM/PC. If you need further information, send me a mail (I tried to reply to your article, but could not reach you). --
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (03/20/91)
ISIS had a nice feature, the remainder of the command line, after the program name, was passed on standard input of the command. I've often thought this would be a nice way of doing things: you could even have a "stdcmd" file descriptor for this purpose. Then instead of piping stuff to xargs, you could pipe the output of find right into the stdcmd of the program. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) (03/21/91)
It was Investment Securities Inventory System when I worked on it in
1977 for the Ontario Provincial Government.
My mail also could not find the original poster.
Davekenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) (03/21/91)
In article <_+3A9C8@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
ISIS had a nice feature, the remainder of the command line, after the program
name, was passed on standard input of the command. I've often thought this
would be a nice way of doing things: you could even have a "stdcmd" file
descriptor for this purpose. Then instead of piping stuff to xargs,
you could pipe the output of find right into the stdcmd of the program.
--
Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
I've always thought xargs was a bit of a kludge. When I wrote PIPE, a PD
shell extension for VMS, I added an couple of operators to the usual set of
piping operators ("|", ">", etc.): "+" means "execute the following command
(repetitively if necessary) with piped data as arguments rather than data".
"?" is the same as "+", except it asks for approval before each execution.
It works so slick(ly?) I miss it elsewhere.
"stdcmd" sounds like a good idea.
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/kenw
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