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- Subject: Re: Additional library directories
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 22:43:59 GMT
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- fred smith (fredex@fcshome.UUCP) wrote:
- : Thomas P. Anderson (tpa10@snappy-tom.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:
- : : [...horror story about failed CNEWS port and Coherent shell...]
- : : Just wondering, now that we have tcsh available to us, will that get
- : : you past those problems? Seems a shame to give up after all that
- : : work.
- :
- : No, it won't help. tcsh is a superset of csh. csh and sh are two
- : entirely different critters, when it comes to shell scripts. unfortunately.
- :
- : Oh, I suppose someone who knew a LOT more about the nitty-gritty of
- : sh and awk and sed than I do could hack away at the build processes,
- : the test processes, and all the sed/sh/awk scripts and make 'em
- : work on Cohrerent. I'm no guru, but I can usually get by. This one
- : burned me out, however.
-
- Hm, just some thoughts (no time to realize them yet):
- 1. has someone ported bash (GNU bourne again shell)? This shell should
- be fully compatible to the SV bourne shell.
- 2. On some ftp/mail sites you'll find pdksh, a public domain korn shell.
- A patch is posted yesterday to one of the source groups. I don't know
- how good this korn shell clone is, but one could try it.
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