Re: What should be in future SKsh versions?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1989 02:08

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In article <13920018@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
> * Filenote support       (not hard - maybe coming in 1.3)

Why would the shell need to know about filenotes?

* csh style editing.

> * "here documents"   (under investigation; useful for shar archives)

This is pretty important to me.

> * tiny-sksh

Just remove most of the builtins (test, etc) and make them seperate
programs. Like the bourne shell. That should help a bunch.

> * a command to move and windows from a script   (anybody want it?)

This should be another external program.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U` "Really, a video game is nothing more than a Skinner box."
       -- Peter Merel <pete@basser.oz>

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: What should be in future SKsh versions?
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Date: 25 Nov 89 02:08:04 GMT
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