Bourne shell modifications, past and future

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> I'd just like to point out that bourne shell ONLY reads .profile & that
> shell functions do not export to subshells.  Thus, when I call shl from
> my .profile (something vaguely akin to job control) all shell functions
> go bye-bye.  (of course ksh addresses this quite nicely).

But Arnold Robbins's shells read .shrc if it exists.  I haven't
put this into the BRL Bourne shell; I'd rather have exported
functions and in any case the shell is already too big.