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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Wed Apr 10 09:13:32 1996
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:13:25 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Just triaging ...
Can someone send this person a brief reply?
1956] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower) Athena Software Suggestions 04/09/96 17:08 (19 lines)
Subject: improvement to "add" implementation
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:08:44 -0400 (EDT)
To: suggest@MIT.EDU
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Currently, "add" is a somewhat gross shell script which is sourced
by an alias. Why not make it a perhaps-more-intelligent binary,
the output of which is a csh expression to be eval'ed by an alias?
It seems this would be faster and smarter and less susceptible to
bugs introduced by nonstandard shells, and maybe even usable in
nonstandard shells like bash and ksh (perhaps by allowing the user
to specify their shell with a flag to the new add binary).
I note that the "athdir" program is already a step in this
direction.
I'd appreciate any comments explaining why this would be a
good/bad idea.
Thanks,
Eric
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