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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2819 comp.unix.solaris:22070 comp.unix.programmer:19658 comp.unix.misc:13709 comp.unix.aux:15259 comp.unix.bsd:14775 comp.unix.aix:43318 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!dbapic.com.au!bwa From: bwa@dbapic.com.au (Barry W Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Followup-To: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Date: 30 Aug 1994 00:09:13 GMT Organization: Dun & Bradstreet Information Services Asia/Pacific Information Centre Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33ttb9$jdq@shadow.dbapic.com.au> References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33gvms$56a@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <SCHWARTZ.94Aug29020609@roke.cse.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: shadow.dbapic.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Scott Schwartz (schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu) wrote: : By my measurements, Bash is more than half the size of emacs 18, : including the X support. : Bash is about three times the size of the Plan 9 kernel. Plan 9 + the : 8.5 window system + the rc shell is still smaller. : Something's out of hand in Unix land. Hey guys, I worked it out...MS wrote BASH (look at the bloat, then look at NT) :-) Barry -- Sysprog sans sig