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Narvi wrote:

> > I think that wksh has a number of significant advantes for this
> > type of work:
> >
> > o     It's the SVR4 answer to the same problem
> >
> > o     Script portability across UNIX clone OS's
> >
> > o     Legacy Bourne shell scripts will run with few changes
> 
> *Legacy* Bourne shell scripts for a yet nonexistant document program 8-?
> 
> >
> > o     It's required for Open UNIX Standard compliance
> 
> So we could have a Open Unix compiliant document program?
> 

 It must be wary good.

> >
> >
> > The only real drawback is that there isn't a pd implementation (I
> > admit that this is a whopper of a drawback, but a grammar-based
> > set of changes in light of the wksh book shouldn't be too hard).
> >
> 
> Well, maybe I am a bit unimaginative, but I really can't imagine myself
> writing shell (Bourne, wksh, etc.) scripts in a document program 8-(
> I am afraid it wouldn't be something I (or even most people) would like.

 Yes,in addition must be some stupid sample tool.
 (in style cpp or m4)

> 
>         Sander
> 
> >
> >                                       Regards,
> >                                       Terry Lambert
> >                                       terry@lambert.org
> > ---
> > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> > or previous employers.
> >