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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!gazette.engr.sgi.com!news From: Greg Limes <limes@straylight.engr.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:54:28 -0800 Organization: The Negentropic Institute of Atlantis Lines: 27 Message-ID: <x5s3ey3lnvf.fsf@straylight.engr.sgi.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <wzzq0kfrg0.fsf@expernet26.expernet.com> <56l8sj$6d2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <kbibb.848468050@shellx> <56u76l$511@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: straylight.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26586 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1576 alt.folklore.computers:124994 shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa) writes: | | What's fundamentally different between a Unix shell and the RT-11 | Keyboard monitor is that a command to a Unix shell must be | either a built-in or explicitly name the executable to be run. Or it can be an alias, or a shell function. Or you can even write your own shell, which knows about a bunch of things that you tell it to know about. Or someone else could provide a bunch of shell functions that do the same thing, calling one system utility or another as appropriate, and you could have your shell load it at startup. What's the "fundamental" difference? -- Greg Limes limes at sgi.com SGI DSD Core I/O Software limes at netcom.com [personal mail -- NO JUNK] ASSERT(!speakfor(SGI,me)); ASSERT(!speakfor(me,SGI)); When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.