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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))
Message-ID: <7783@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 13 May 91 18:36:45 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The only programs that I'd think worth it are things like /bin/echo;
>almost all of its running time is start up.

Of course, a lot of shell scripts shouldn't be using "/bin/echo" anyway;
they should be using the "echo" built into {sh,csh,ksh,...}.