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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Korn Shell
Message-ID: <261@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 18:13:58 EST
Article-I.D.: mcdchg.261
Posted: Thu Mar 19 18:13:58 1987
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Keywords: Korn shell ksh aliases parameters

In article <209@quacky.mips.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
|In article <15224@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
|>>Why can't aliases and functions be exported like shell variables?
|
|One point that hasn't been mentioned is how shell scripts would be
|affected by having these items exported.

Actually, they can be exported in ksh.  They are then recognized by
shell scripts.  They are not known to Nth generation invokations, though.
I.e. if you invoke ksh from within vi, you don't get them.  By default,
they are *not* exported, thus preserving compatible behaviour.
-- 
Ron Heiby, mcdchg!heiby		Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix
Motorola Microcomputer Division (MCD), Schaumburg, IL
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