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
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 23:52:44 BST