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From: rik@uf-csg.UUCP (Rik Faith [guest])
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Why is Berkeley "head" a program?
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 19:18:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 19:18:21 1984
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Certainly many current standard UN*X tools can be written as shell scripts.
The disk memory overhead required to maintain a binary, however, 
seems minimal, especially on a system with lots of disk space,
when compared with the time and process overhead of a shell script.  The
tools, as binaries, are truly shell independent, as I feel they should be:
as a user of csh, I am constantly spawning sh processes to run shell-scripts
that could have been written in C.
-- 

Rik Faith, student at the University of Florida, Gainesville
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