9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
4:52 p.m.
On August 9, Carlos Murillo wrote:
>DCL is a very complete command language.
There's a lot that can be
>done directly that require external programs in Unix shells.
...
By the way, I think that requiring external programs
in Unix isn't
necessarily a disadvantage, as long as such programs are standard in
every U'x. And many are, thanks to POSIX.
You're not familiar with the overhead associated with fork()/vfork(),
are you Carlos.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD