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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: Shell games 
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:53:22 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:

> I'm not sure why sanity won here though.  I guess it'll be done the 
> next time it comes up....

Reason won in the Bourne shell case because ours is actively maintained.
Until ours is no longer actively maintained by a responsive, cluefull
and FreeBSD-friendly person or group of people, someone's going to have
to come up with _new_ arguments for any other shell.  Thus far, nothing
compelling has emerged, though not for want of noise. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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