Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!hoswjc!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: ln ksh /bin/sh (was: second disk partitions on UNIXPC) Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 89 16:47:05 GMT References: <1717@mtunb.ATT.COM> <12086@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: bill@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: william_j_carpenter@ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 In-reply-to: res@cbnews.ATT.COM's message of 7 Dec 89 19:36:01 GMT In article <12086@cbnews.ATT.COM> res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli) writes: res> have access to the ksh sources, so I use a ksh compiled from res> these, and not the one that came with the distribution disks. When I recently reloaded everything onto a new hard drive, I was reminded of just how bizarre the distribution "ksh" is (even with the fixdisk). Go ahead and ask it what version it is, and you'll get some random piece of string from a source file instead an actual ksh version ID. That's just a clue to what other wierdness to expect from that particular a.out. It's been a long time since I thought about this, but as I recall the version that was available from THE STORE! was quite a bit saner than the "official" stuff (even though perhaps an older version). -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill