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From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: autoloading questions
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1. What's the best way of checking whether an autoload of a function
   will succeed?  (I mean the actual loading, rather than the
   invocation of the `autoload' built-in.)

2. How can I manually cause an autoloaded function to be loaded
   without actually running it, even if there is a typical 

      foo "$@"

   line at the end of the file?