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Subject: Re: Differences between Duff's rc and Byron's 
Date:	Tue, 25 May 1993 19:32:47 -0400
From:	Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
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| - . searching the path
|
|	Plan 9 does this, it might be handy but it might also be very
|	dangerous.

And can be simulated by suitably defining "fn . { ... }".

Actually, reading the Plan9 man pages was somewhat depressing:  two of
the things I regard as unnecessary in Byron's rc ($^foo and newpgrp)
have made it after a fashion in to Duff's implementation.