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From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St.Pierre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Korn Shell
Message-ID: <2204@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 01:38:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 01:38:55 1987
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Keywords: Korn shell ksh aliases parameters

In article <730@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:
>
>Since this is in the ENV file doesn't it significantly increase the
>amount of time it takes to start a sub-shell.

Doesn't really seem to. It may not have been apparent, but the dirs, popd, ...
functions were actually defined in a separate file. An alias was defined
which sourced then in at first reference and unaliased them. You bite it
big the first time you use the functions, but after that it's pretty fast.

>
>Why can't aliases and functions be exported like shell variables?

They can be - that's why they're in my ENV file! :-) Isn't this the
sam question one asks of the .cshrc file? When I shell escape out of
rn/vi/..., I like to have my aliases handy.
>Tom.


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