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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Subject: Re: Exporting functions in ksh
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Date: 20 Nov 89 15:07:18 GMT
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typeset -xf name

works for shell scripts only. If you want a new shell invocation
to inherit functions, you have to put them in your ENV file.

If you have the new (1988) ksh, you can set FPATH to a colon-separated
list of directories that ksh searches for auto-load functions. This
works like PATH does for command searching.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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