Flaming Escapes - a Partly Baked Idea

[Chris Torek]

In article <12162 at brl-adm.ARPA> PAAAAAR%CALSTATE.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>If the input fails to parse as a command in the current program,
>the program tests to see if it is a valid shell command and if and only
>if it is the program spawns a shell to obey it.

What with the vagaries of paths, shell `rc' files, aliases, and such,
the only reliable way to discover whether something is a `valid shell
command' is by issuing it.

>Copywrite:

Since you misspelled it, I deleted the rest :-) .
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