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From: rob@meaddata.com (Robert E. Lancia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Bourne shell functions
Message-ID: <4975@meaddata.meaddata.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 20:32:22 GMT
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Following up to my own article ...

In article <4973@meaddata.meaddata.com> I write:
>
>One of our systems is a Sequent computer running DYNIX V3.0.17.v3.
>(DYNIX is strange in itself, in that it has completely separate
>AT&T and UCB universes, both of which IMHO seem incomplete.)  Anyway,
>in trying to write part of a simple Bourne shell script, I found that
>their shell doesn't support functions and I came up with a work-around.
>
  [ . . . example deleted . . . ]
>
>The simple examples I've tried all seem to work, and I can't come up
>with a scenario in which [it] won't work.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^
... except of course, in dealing with parameters.  The work-around I
described won't work with parameters (at least, not as given.) 
Parameters to these "functions" aren't a major concern of mine for
this script, though.


Other comments, etc?


Rob.
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