From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> schrieb Folgendes:
> -: Every remotely decent shell can do it. Which only serves to prove the
> -: point that command.com isn't a decent shell. So, what else is new?
> 
> Are there *any* advantages (other than being able to run DOS batch
> files), to loading bash on top of command.com?  IOW, is there any
> good reason *not* to load bash as your primary shell? (Easier said
> than done maybe, but's let's keep it hypothetical).

The version of bash I had did not have cp and so on as internal commands,
thus being everything but echo, # and cd very slow (half a second!). I got
bash from the cygwin package.

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