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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: expr
Date: 28 Apr 93 15:57:35
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In-reply-to: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Wed, 28 Apr 1993 19:57:58 GMT
Nate> Make sure you use 'ash' as your /bin/sh (NOT bash!), which has a
Nate> builtin eval that works. :-)
Nate, you must be running a different version of ash then the rest of
us. My copy of ash has only "echo" as a builtin.
Thats one of the reasons that until 0.2.3 the patchkit install was so
slow. I spent quite some time replacing calls to external commands,
like test, with builtin equivalents.
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