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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!bridge2!news.claremont.edu!fenris!jwinstea
  2. From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: a shell idea
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183020.2264@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 18:30:20 GMT
  7. References: <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
  8. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  9. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
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  11.  
  12. In article <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
  13. >i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
  14. >the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
  15. >of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to 
  16. >mention the end of all the bickering.
  17.  
  18. Um, why?  I would much rather have five binaries for tcsh, ksh, bash,
  19. rc, and some other shell on my system that I could trim down if I
  20. needed (like delete tcsh since I wouldn't use it...) rather than some
  21. monolithic beast that contained features I really don't need.
  22.  
  23. Small is beautiful.
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. loveritablessencentipedependentalism+      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
  27. andaterrificklengtherealityearguessy|      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
  28. mpathybridgenerationiceremonymphysic|   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
  29. alendareadvertisexpresshothoughthend+ or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
  30.