Frank Letts writes:
>
> Does anyone know of problems/limitations within the posix shell (Mark,
> Glenn, et al)
>
> I have a series of scripts I'm porting from a sun to the 3k, and am
> hitting a problem.
> Script:
> 1. shell script a envolks shell script b
> 2 b does a '. common.sh' to load a bunch of "subroutines"
> 3. b attempts to execute/transfer to term_mainloop which is at line 1073
> of 'common.sh'
> 4. scripts errors out with term_mainloop: not found
>
> wimper :(

Other than being really, really, REALLY slow for huge scripts, I'm not aware
of any major SH.HPBIN.SYS functional limitations.

But I'm not certain if any of the scripts I've ported are using "." to define
common functions.  I know you can use "." to define common environment
variables OK under MPE, but I haven't explicitly attempted to do functions
that way.
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