Chris Linton-Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It might be helpful to consider the shells' dual nature as a) a
> scripting medium and b) an interactive environment. Surely there is no
> engineering reason why a shell could not be coded to have only a strict
> superset of /sbin/sh's commands, thus making scripts compatible.
>
> The interactive usability features are somewhat orthogonal to the
> scripting capabilities and compatibility - I'm thinking that what most
> people want, and certainly what I want, is improvement to former, rather
> than incompatible extensions to the latter.
This is what I did on SchilliX-0.6.1 ;-)
Jörg
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