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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Bourne shell modifications, past and future
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 10:31:52 EST
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> I'd just like to point out that bourne shell ONLY reads .profile & that
> shell functions do not export to subshells.  Thus, when I call shl from
> my .profile (something vaguely akin to job control) all shell functions
> go bye-bye.  (of course ksh addresses this quite nicely).

But Arnold Robbins's shells read .shrc if it exists.  I haven't
put this into the BRL Bourne shell; I'd rather have exported
functions and in any case the shell is already too big.