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From: callum@gara.une.oz (Callum Gibson CCEN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Clam Scripts
Message-ID: <1177@gara.une.oz>
Date: 25 Sep 89 23:48:54 GMT
References: <1989Sep24.205115.24324@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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From article <1989Sep24.205115.24324@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, by cs304pal@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes):
| rush of brains to the head and I realise that several of the builtins
| aren't extensions, but are fast replacements for programs on disk, e.g. cp
| & ls. But, most Minix users have their root file system on a RAM disk
| anyway, so we get no speed advantage. So I deleted them. At this point I
| got some warnings from a colleague, 'watch what you delete', so I deleted
| chdir. :-) Thank goodness I still had sh around.
| If you think anyone believes what I have just said,
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| then you must be daft in the head!

    You're right. I'd be interested to know how cp and ls got into Clam
as builtins! Maybe you're compiling all the utilities code into Clam :-)

    Callum.