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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: bin/4154: wish /bin/sleep handled fractions of a second. 
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:06:40 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>  How on earth can you call such a script "portable" if it clearly uses
>  something not specified in POSIX?

I think what he meant was "portable between the various *BSDs", but
your point about writing scripts which _only_ run on BSD is still very
valid.

					JOrdan