On Friday, March 31, 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
> In my mind there is a difference between items that are
> freebsd-exclusive (like set -o and alias) and items that we have unique
> implementations of, like export. The latter are available on other
> platforms, and therefore, IMO we should follow the more generally accepted
> format. Extending that argument to either not take advantage of features
> unique to FreeBSD (silly and wasteful) or to doing everything FreeBSD'ish
> just because we can (teaches a bad lesson) goes too far in either
> direction for my taste.
``set -o'', ``alias'', and ``export'' are all portable. A few
options for ``set -o'' may not be, but otherwise they are. Where
did you get the idea that the first two were FreeBSD-exclusive?
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