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- From: rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dale Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [BSD4.3reno] /bin/sh problem?
- Message-ID: <1deo4sINNdpg@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 21:30:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: charnel.1deo4sINNdpg
- References: <1d9m3vINN8nh@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <MJL.92Nov5133721@rigel.bos.locus.com>
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- In article <MJL.92Nov5133721@rigel.bos.locus.com> mjl@bos.locus.com (Mike Leibensperger) writes:
- >
- >In article <1d9m3vINN8nh@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- >rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dale Harris) writes:
- >You only get shell functions with the Korn shell (/bin/ksh, linked to
- >/bin/sh on some systems). The Korn shell requires a seperate license
- >from AT&T or USL or whatever, so I doubt that stuff straight out of
- >Berkeley (4.3reno, 4.4, Net2) comes with it.
-
- I know that is not quite correct because functions works on most SYSV
- system /bin/sh and it isn't linked to /bin/ksh, I check things like that,
- also I ran my little script on a NeXT and it really can't be called a SYSV
- machine or a BSD machine and its /bin/sh supported the functions and it
- didn't come with ksh, it was ported over.
-
- Thanx to the rest of you for proving my suspicions that BSD4.3 /bin/sh
- doesn't support functions, and that I'd probably have to use bash or ksh.
-
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