From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 29 12:48: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from www0w.netaddress.usa.net (www0w.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA8EC14D87 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 14485 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Jun 1999 19:48:02 -0000 Message-ID: <19990629194802.14484.qmail@www0w.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.52 by www0w via web-mailer(M3.2.0.17) on Tue Jun 29 19:48:02 GMT 1999 Date: 29 Jun 99 12:48:02 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: what is the policy for builtin shell functions? X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.2.0.17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've note many builtin functions for csh(1) and sh(1) = have no apropos(1) or whatis(1). = Especially annoying are 'limit' and 'unlimit'. = Require people to become experts in shell = scripting seems excessive. Remembering = all the builtins is dumb. That is what = I have a computer for... I don't want = to remember certain things. = What is the policy for 'builtin' shell functions? = --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message