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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: ksh on mips
Message-ID: <4292@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 18:37:44 GMT
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Reply-To: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta GA
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In article <2576@lll-lcc.UUCP> busby@lll-lcc.llnl.gov.UUCP (Lee Busby) writes:
>I'm porting the ATT Toolchest Korn Shell (my tar file is dated 5 Sept 87)
>to our MIPS M/120 running 3.10.  It compiles just fine and seems to
>run ok, BUT parameter expansion (echo *) is all messed up.  Anyone
>else already succeeded in this task?

The MIPS may have fooled the ksh configuration stuff into thinking it's
completely System V, and ksh would be using reads of 16 bytes to get
directory entries instead of the library readdir sort of stuff, since
the MIPS uses the Berkeley FFS.  See if you can determine how ksh is reading
directories.

I note here that there is a newer versoin of ksh than what you have, which
it would probably be worthwhile to upgrade to.
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