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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:00:39 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 
Message-ID:  <18697.1006419639@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:54:25 CST." <20011121125425.J13393@elvis.mu.org> 

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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:54:25 CST, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Since these are now builtins, wouldn't it sort of make sense to
> make 'sh' capable of being /bin/test, /bin/printf /whatever/builtin
> based on argv[0]?  :)

Well, csh and other shells will suffer, since they'll now take a
relatively big it for using these standalone utilities.

Not being a csh user, I think it's a great idea. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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