Subject: Re: Q. on Ass5 360

> 
> Hi,
> For vanity plates part, what kind of interaction  it  should be ?
> i.e. the input is entered from user ?
> Or
> the input is read from a file which contains
> the dictionary words  produced by your AWK command ?

Whatever you like, as long as it is easy for the marker.
Ideally, there should be a command ('go', for example)
that the marker will issue and that will perform
all the necessary actions (reading an input file, 
loading an input file, etc).

> In the second case, it would generate a huge  lists of
> "vanity plates" , so that should we "tell" it to another file
> hence the user (the marker) can check from it rather
> than from standard output ?

It would be nice (for yourself during debuggin *as well as* 
for the marker) if you had several versions of the 'go' command; 
an interactive one, one that reads a file and stores the output
to a temporary file, and that reads a file and sends the
output to standard out, etc.

/CC

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