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From:	Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
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So, there I was, walking home after work, muttering under my breath,
and mulling over the analogy between rc having to exec to read a line
and C having to perform a system call to read a char.  I though I had
the clincher in this argument.  Then it dawned on me -- we can use
buffered IO in rc (read many lines with one exec) exactly as we do in C
(read many chars with one system call).

The interface might be a little tricky, and one would want to be
careful of having so much stuff in the environment, but it may well be
possible.  

Therefore, I withdraw my request for a built-in read, withdraw my
sugestion that echo should be a de jure built-in, and consequently
withdraw my suggestion that herestrings be removed.  To celebrate I may
even go and compile up rc without echo.

Sorry to have wasted your time with this one,

Alan.