- csh weirdness

[Henry Spencer]

> ...csh(1) has a lot of built-in execution, whereas sh(1) has to
> fork a separate process (test(1)) for every bloody "if" test. Bourne
> shell scripts, on our poor overloaded VAX 750, are slooooooow.

Have you considered getting a modern Bourne shell (as opposed to the
ancient one distributed with 4.2)?  This was fixed long ago.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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