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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: - csh weirdness
Message-ID: <6576@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 12:40:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 10 12:40:24 1986
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> ...csh(1) has a lot of built-in execution, whereas sh(1) has to
> fork a separate process (test(1)) for every bloody "if" test. Bourne
> shell scripts, on our poor overloaded VAX 750, are slooooooow.

Have you considered getting a modern Bourne shell (as opposed to the
ancient one distributed with 4.2)?  This was fixed long ago.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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