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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.30A and "SHELL=" in CONFIG.SYS (SLOWness)
Message-ID: <2112@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 90 02:09:21 GMT
References: <1236@netmbx.UUCP> <656261388.1689@ontmoh.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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  One other thought on this, some shells keep a hash table of commands,
so that the commands will be found by search once, and then by direct
lookup. MKS ksh is one example of this, there are others.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me