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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:06:40 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, denny1@home.com
Subject:   Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. 
Message-ID:  <11248.869735200@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:10:02 PDT." <199707240610.XAA11247@hub.freebsd.org> 

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>  How on earth can you call such a script "portable" if it clearly uses
>  something not specified in POSIX?

I think what he meant was "portable between the various *BSDs", but
your point about writing scripts which _only_ run on BSD is still very
valid.

					JOrdan



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