Ultrix 4.0 bourne shell scripting

[diamond@tkovoa]

In article <593 at wattres.UUCP> steve at wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes:
>>In article <BRISTER.90Aug7093243 at westworld.decwrl.dec.com> brister at decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) writes:
>>The Ultrix standard Bourne shell (/bin/sh) is an old version. To get the
>>":-" behaviour as well as user-definable functions, you want to use the
>>shell /usr/bin/sh5 (which comes from System V release 2).
>Is there some reason for DEC to continue distributing the old sh?

Because BSD did so.  (But I can't tell you which version of BSD.)

>I thought that sh5 was a complete superset of it....

That's my understanding too.
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