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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: MW_C Documentation
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Date: 9 Aug 88 06:38:13 GMT
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In article <8808090254.AA22852@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> FORTINP%BNR.CA@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU (Pierre  Fortin, P.) writes:
>MW_C documentation anomalies:
 
>P.425-432:  Anyone have docs on the following undocumented (other than
>       partial docs in help file) MSH commands?:
>           . comfile
This is inherited from the Unix Bourne shell - it's how you execute the
commands in a shell script without starting up a subshell. (You could
execute the script with something like "msh comfile" but if it's something
like "profile" it doesn't do you much good...)

>           chmod mode file [...]
>           drvprs [-q] drive
>           inherit variable ...
>           lc         (I use this instead of 'ls' in my PROFILE)
>           mousehidden
>           mshversion
>
>       OK, I know about the last few, but I was on a roll...
>
>Pierre Fortin
>FORTINP@BNR.BITNET

Forgot details of some of those, and a few others are really strange
sounding. I'd like to get filled in on these as well.
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