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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jbs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 1 15:51:58 1989
From: <jbs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:50:35 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
/usr/athena/prochart is a shell script which does not start with #!, so
sh is used by default. sh does not have a built-in echo, so the echo
commands must each be executed by calling the program echo. This is
very slow.
I'd suggest changing all the shell scripts which use lots of echos to
something like:
cat <<EOF
To use the FOOBARBAZ software, use the command
attach foobarbaz
and then read the file /mit/foobarbaz/README
EOF
If for some reason you don't want to do this, at least make sure all
the scripts with lots of echo commands in them use csh
