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Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4
To:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
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Date:	Mon, 8 May 2000 05:15:01 -0400
From:	Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
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>  In order to make this work, you need to find a utility that is
> guaranteed to read no more than the first line of standard input.

Yup.  What if such a utility were distributed with rc, or as part of an
rc-utils package?

>  read is the one extra command that I really think should be a
> builtin.

OK.  Any other views?

Tim.