>> >> Ah thanks, I would have never thought of using builtin in that case, I >> thought that the word following builtin had to be an rc built-in >> command. > > I doubt that "builtin acme" was a planned feature of rc, > though it's a neat trick. If you want to be clearer, you > could write /bin/acme.
on unix, this often wouldn't work since acme isn't usually in /bin. perhaps this is my particular symptom of unix brain damage but, regardless of name, builtin just skips shell functions in its lookup so its more than just a trick. - erik
