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From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
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To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Just how brain dead is SCO Unix?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 19:53:26 -0600
Message-Id: <9202102053.aa29139@ceres.srg.af.mil>

While running some test programs through rc to beat it up some I began
to wonder what was taking so long.  A couple of peeks with ps were
enough to make me feel quite ill.  In SCO Unix /bin/test is a Bourne
shell script that does essentially this:

	`basename $0` "$@"

8-P Blech!  You can at least avoid running basename by using:

	fn test {
		/bin/sh -c test $*
	}

But basically the choice is the test built into your shell (or Bourne
shell) or nothing!  Any better suggestions are welcome.

Tom