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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What should be in future SKsh versions?
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Date: 8 Dec 89 17:33:57 GMT
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koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
> > Or... don't tell me... which is another built-in?
> 
> > Hey, Steve. You want to cut a whole bunch of stuff out of sksh? Get rid
> > of all the builtins!
> 
> I like this idea, though I think the best route is to supply two binaries,
> one with the builtins and one without.  Hard drive users tell me "get rid of
> the builtins" and floppy users tell me "add more builtins".  I don't think
> I can get rid of *all* the builtins (like the exit command, for example),
> but certainly many of them.

Why exactly do you need builtins at all, even on a floppy disk, given the
existance of REZ?  [Which has the large advantage of letting the USER decide
which commands take up memory space...]

-Miles