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Subject: Re: Another vote for a built-in read function 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1993 15:29:17 EDT."
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Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 19:18:52 -0400
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
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| 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.