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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Flaming Escapes - a Partly Baked Idea
Message-ID: <9840@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 14:53:48 GMT
References: <12162@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  I don't think this is a good idea. Perhaps in a world where no one
mistyped a command of got a command zapped by communications lines, but
not for me, thanks.

  UNIX does enough interesting things with mistyped commands at the
shell level, without adding a "pseudo shell" level.

  Implementation: I guess you could chase the path yourself, but that
would be a pain. The Korn shell "whence" command will return a path for
any valid command including builtins. You could popen the shell and ask
if the command is valid.

  Yes, I know I'm telling him how to implement a bad idea, but I hate
people who won't let me make a fool of myself...
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me