Flaming Escapes - a Partly Baked Idea

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

  I don't think this is a good idea. Perhaps in a world where no one
mistyped a command of got a command zapped by communications lines, but
not for me, thanks.

  UNIX does enough interesting things with mistyped commands at the
shell level, without adding a "pseudo shell" level.

  Implementation: I guess you could chase the path yourself, but that
would be a pain. The Korn shell "whence" command will return a path for
any valid command including builtins. You could popen the shell and ask
if the command is valid.

  Yes, I know I'm telling him how to implement a bad idea, but I hate
people who won't let me make a fool of myself...
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me