Bourne shell modifications, past an

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <19300051 at uiucdcsb>, mcdaniel at uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>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.)

I meant the already-improved version of the Bourne shell which was being
discussed.  (Shell functions are originally from SysV.)  Flame away if I
be mistaken.
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