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Subject: Re: Thoughts on a builtin read 
In-reply-to: byron's message of Tue, 21 Sep 93 12:36:23 -0400.
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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 1993 12:50:50 -0400
From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks>
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 IMHO this is thus an argument against read as a backquote operator,
since one strong reason to put it into the shell in the first place
is for efficiency reasons.

 I'm not particularly eager to see someone have to change rc's
perfectly fine and working i/o system for backquote operators.

	- cks