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From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Is fixing /bin/sh worthwhile?
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Date: 25 Feb 1993 21:57:17 UTC
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In article <CONKLIN.93Feb23174603@talisman.kaleida.com> conklin@kaleida.com writes:
>I know many people have goto around these sort of problems by copying
>bash to /bin/sh.  But I'm attempting to fix the bugs.  I fixed a
>parsing bug last weekend, and I'm working on a quoting bug now.

This might be a good idea, except that bash takes up a good deal more memory
than does sh.  This could lead to problems on machines without lots of RAM.

>replaced by bash, zsh, pd-ksh, or whatever in a future release.

I've got the new zsh which was posted in comp.sources.misc recently compiled
and running.  It's a pretty nice shell, but takes almost as much RAM as
bash does.

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