> It is also is a stand-alone command to interpret Tcl scripts. I'd guess > Tcl was the original source of source and was adopted by BASH and other > shells afterwards. I don't know anything about Tcl but maybe it has a > group of functions along the lines of file-type file-name. >
I'd find that remarkably difficult to believe, since I was using "source" in /bin/sh about eight years before the first release of Tcl. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/