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From:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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To:	Uhl@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX

>Bengt Kleberg -- RC => POSIX
>Tom Culliton -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Bengt Kleberg -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Tom Culliton -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Malte Uhl -- Re: RC => POSIX 
>Tom Culliton -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Alan Watson -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Tom Culliton -- Re: RC => POSIX
>Scott Schwartz -- Re: RC => POSIX 
>Greg A. Woods -- Re: RC => POSIX

A quick and necessarily incomplete reply to all this mail.

First of all I want to resist posixifying rc. It is a shell which in fact
enjoys wide portability, and I think it would be a mistake to limit the
use of subsequent versions to posix systems.

I agree that the ANSI header files are probably a mistake. The reason why
they are a mistake is again that they limit portability.

Byron.