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- From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
- Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Programming Considered Harmful
- Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 02:47:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bx82EK.JxL@egsner.cirr.com>
- References: <Bx4Myp.Czr@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov3.125655.16320@prl.dec.com> <1992Nov3.191253*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
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- In article <1992Nov3.191253*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
- Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
- - Well, I'd say it does NOT work very well, especially when having to deal
- - with that Bourne shell DEC has been providing their customers with over the
- - years in Ultrix. Has it been updated at all since 4.2BSD --> Ultrix 1.1?
- -
- - And for you Tom C., same thing goes for Convex Computer.
-
- Sounds like you had better contact your Convex field
- office for the ConvexOS 10.0 release/upgrade. 10.0 includes a
- System V, release 2 sh. It has also been widely available since
- July. (FYI: ConvexOS 10.1 is the current release.)
-
- --
- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com schnoebe@convex.com
- Q: What is small and yellow and very dangerous?
- A: A canary with the super-user password!
-