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From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:19:59 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:07 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 4:03 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Couldn't you also ship a shell? That kinda seems like the simplest solution.
>
> Sure the problem is -- where do you stop?

Good question. But this sort of suggests that maybe it's not the shell
that's really the problem, but the entire milieu of all the tools that
we use when we write "shell scripts."

> The result is the fork/mess called Gnu.

BUGS: Yes.

        - Dan C.