Lawrence Statton wrote:
>> 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.
>
>   
It looks as though it was introduced in csh. 

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://learn.perl.org/


Reply via email to