Bourne shell modifications, past an

[mcdaniel at uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU]

Written 12:25 am  Nov 15, 1985 by levy at ttrdc.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.unix:
> In article <10 at druri.UUCP>, clive at druri.UUCP (StewardCN) writes:
>> Out of curiosity, just why don't you want to put in command aliasing?
>> It's one of the most useful features in csh and ksh, I think.
>> Clive

> Maybe it's because the Bourne shell now supports shell functions?

Maybe YOUR Bourne shell supports shell functions.  Our 4.2 /bin/sh
does not.  Would it be difficult to add?  (Never having seen such
beasts, I have no idea how hard it would be.)