Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: What should be in future SKsh versions? Message-ID: <4776@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 16 Dec 89 20:29:10 GMT References: <13920018@hpfelg.HP.COM> <13920030@hpfelg.HP.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 19 In article <13920030@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes: > FYI, some future release of SKsh (past 1.3) will provide a shell with > only the necessary builtins (like 'exit' and 'set'). Good. > I still feel that > two versions (minSksh and maxSksh) would be the best route, since there > are a large number of people who want both types. (What's that saying > about pleasing all the people some of the time, or some of the people > all the time... :-) This is the best way to do it. And after all, it's a cheap optimisation. But... how about the superworkbenchshell idea? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"