Re: gnubol: Record delimiter clause and parse order

[Matthew Vanecek <linuxguy@directlink.net>]

Tim Josling wrote:
> 
> Matthew,
> What's a "device"? Where does it say in quotes is a device and
> otherwise it's a file?
> Tim Josling
> 

Backwards:
> (i.e., if it's in quotes, it's a file, if it's not, it's a device, but
> if it's not a device, it could be a file...wow, how twisted...)

I was reading that in the MF System Reference, File Handling chapter or
somewhere in their manuals.  It's all a haze now...I'd have to find it
again for the exact wording, but IIRC, quoted identifiers refer to
files, and unquoted ones refer to devices (e.g., PRINTER or stdout/in
(32-bit only, I think)), or tape devices, etc.

Like I said, that's (devices) too far down the road to worry about right
now.  Just setting up a basic file structure and getting that to work
correctly (or, "as expected"), and supporting as many idiosyncratic
implementations as is sane, is enough for the next little while.
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