From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay2.UU.NET ([192.48.96.7]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2062>; Sun, 19 Sep 1993 16:20:18 -0400 Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA16251; Sun, 19 Sep 93 16:20:03 -0400 Received: from srg.UUCP by uucp6.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 161830.4849; Sun, 19 Sep 1993 16:18:30 EDT Received: from ceres.srg.af.mil by srg.srg.af.mil id aa14265; Sun, 19 Sep 93 15:59:23 EDT From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278) X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2) To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Another vote for a built-in read function Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 15:59:21 -0400 Message-Id: <9309191559.aa00656@ceres.srg.af.mil> > | Boyd's famous comment that a shell should run commands not have them > | built into it. > > Well, just to throw some oil on the fire, check out alt.os.multics for > some relevent and incisive thoughts on this topic. I suspect that there are a lot of us without easy access to that news group. (or just too busy to look) Could you summarize for us? Or at least indicate which way the discussion was leaning? Tom