sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (09/15/89)
From: Steve Hayman <sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> I do remember the reasons why "yes" was renamed, and at one point I agreed with them. But really, all the change is trying to do is protect the handful of people who might ever type "yes" on a hardcopy terminal. Those people - operators, whoever - ought to make their own alias or use a PATH that picks up a "fixed" version of yes. > Perhaps a better change would have been to make "yes" > not work if output is to a tty? There might still be reasons to make "yes" work when output is to a tty. maybe I'm testing something and need a stream of output to the screen. Who's to say? I think it would be better to leave the stock /usr/ucb/yes alone. Some people might like it the way it is.