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From: Dave Mason <dmason@watmsg.waterloo.edu>
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In-Reply-To: Boyd Roberts's message of Thu, 1 Aug 1991 03:40:33 -0500 <9108011040.2131.rc.baden@prl.dec.com>
Subject: RE: 'access' builtin for rc?

Boyd states it a little strongly, but I agree.  Access looks nicer than
test, but it should be an executable, not a builtin.  Perhaps it should ship
with rc (although is the extra functionality and clean-ness really worth the
incompatibility with test?), but in a bin library, please.

There are those of us who think that whatis should not be builtin.  And the
only excuse for echo is that it's tiny and used a *lot*.

	../Dave