> I read that as allowing the shell to run programs that the kernel would
> reject.  I eventually understood it to mean that you can hide programs
> where only the shell will find them.  Is the current directory one of
> those places, I wonder?  I'm reluctant to figure it out for myself -
> long day.

try this:

        cd $home/tmp
        cat > diff
        #!/bin/rc
        echo hi!
        <EOT>
        chmod a+x diff
        history -D $somefile
        diff $somefile `{yesterday $somefile}

- erik

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