Standard Shells On System V.4

[John Robert LoVerso]

In article <12332 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> Nobody in their right mind would "upgrade" the SVR3.2 /bin/sh to the 4.3BSD
> /bin/sh, especially when it would break existing customer applications.

That's only the common sense attitude!  8-}

Encore's UMAX4.2 (loosely based upon 4.2BSD) included the BRL
version of the SysV3.2 /bin/sh.  Encore's 4.3BSD release seems to
have had this replaced by the older 4.3BSD /bin/sh.  A note in one
of their documents says to check (and change) all the shell scripts
and Makefiles on your machine to "assure BSD compatibility".

The SysV3.2 shell is still available in "/usr/old/sh".  And, on a
positive note, they do the world one favor and distribute ksh as
a standard part of every system.  That, at least, can be used to
replace /bin/sh (with just the loss of "^" or so).  Actually, ksh
appears to be the 1985 version (which is about the time when the
BRL shell was incorporated into UMAX4.2).  Oops.

John
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