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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: Another vote for a built-in read function
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 19:18:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93Sep17.191854edt.2537@groucho.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1993 15:29:17 EDT." <9309171529.aa25902@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.  



  reply	other threads:[~1993-09-17 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-09-17 19:29 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-09-17 23:18 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-09-19 19:59 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-09-20  2:44 ` Scott Schwartz
1993-09-17 18:17 gjv%atlas%cesar
1993-09-17 13:10 gjv%atlas%cesar
1993-09-17 16:58 ` Chris Siebenmann

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