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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Magic symlink syntax
Keywords: nami hack, namei hack
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Date: 14 Jun 88 23:44:36 GMT
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> (though they came up with one of the ugliest kludges i've ever seen to
> handle v7 echo or system V echo as a shell builtin).

Blame where blame is due :-); the "look at $PATH" hack was originally conceived
by, I believe, Dave Korn (at least I got the idea from some mail I received
from dpk).