This one time, at band camp, Bruce Park said: > What exactly is a POSIX shell? > > bp It is a shell that complies with the Portable Operating System Interface - basically, system calls, expected behaviors and that sort of thing. Makes it easier for programmers to write cross-platform programs. Grossly oversimplified, but google could give you quite a bit more, if you're interested in looking around. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | You'll wish that you had done some of the | |steve@lobefin.net |hard things when they were easier | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | to do. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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