On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:00:43PM -0400, Fleeberz at aol.com wrote:
> [semi-OT, attempted humor]
> In a message dated 2001-05-26 8:21:33 AM, lewis at mail.msen.com writes:
> 
> >On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:32:07PM +0100, John Hinsley wrote:
> >> 
> >> I just wonder if you could use Squeak shell to pipe stuff through a bash
> >> script....
> >
> >Yes. Well, sort of. There is a bit of an impedence mismatch between
> >Squeak objects and the streams of characters which a bash script
> >expects to see on its input. 
> 
> Thus the importance of a proper line terminator. Used to have this problem 
> with AppleTalk before I switched to ethernet...

I meant a conceptual impedence mismatch. Unix command pipelines work on
character streams, and I have not entirely sorted out how to connect
Smalltalk objects into command pipelines in a way that would be
convenient and intuitive for people familiar with both paradigms.

Dave