Help! Csh is eating my brain....

[tweten at AMES-NAS.ARPA]

From: pdg at ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)

	>		alias readandset 'echo -n \!:1 ; set \!:2 = $< ' 

	Why doesn't ksh have something like  this?  I hate having to use
	fc and mess around with its output - and that's soooo inefficient!

I'm not a ksher, so I can't answer directly, but System V.2 sh has just the
thing, shell functions:

	readandset () { echo "$1\c"; read $2; }

To my eye, at least, it even looks better!