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To:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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Subject: Re: autoconfig 
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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 1997 21:20:32 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@cse.psu.edu>

byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
| > #define DEFAULTPATH "/usr/ucb", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "."
| 
| I think this can be deduced by running /bin/sh as a login shell
| with $PATH unset, and snarfing the output of "echo $PATH".

I like adding /usr/local/bin to defaultpath, something /bin/sh
doesn't do, because rc doesn't source .rcrc unless it is a login shell
and more localized defaults makes rsh work better.

| I am sorely tempted to remove named pipe support. It never worked
| properly.

But it works just barely well enough for SunOS, which has no /dev/fd
(unless you install a nonstandard modloaded device, or override open().)

| > #define NOJOB
| 
| Does anyone use this? It forces sh-like semantics for backgrounding.
| Why should it be an option? I haven't found a use for it, but I think
| I put it in in self-defense early on.

If anyone ever ports it to Plan 9, it might be handy.
(I get an urge to do this every time I hit a feature that your
shell does better than the original, most often multi line lists.)