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On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 02-11-2007 17:35:08 +0000, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > I don't see them as inferior. |
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> > I see them as more portable and less confusing. |
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> Please stop calling it "more portable". The shell code you see in |
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> configure can in a way be called "portable". Your POSIX compliant stuff |
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> isn't. |
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It is - in the sense the run in more shells. Roy's POSIX compliant stuff |
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runs on at least a handful different shells. bash scripts runs on only |
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one. (busybox ash can run some bash things but mostly they don't work) |
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bash itself is portable but that is another story. |
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-nc |
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