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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: Standard Shells On System V.4
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Date: 13 Mar 90 18:41:42 GMT
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In article <8704@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:

$ Encore's UMAX4.2 (loosely based upon 4.2BSD) included the BRL
$ version of the SysV3.2 /bin/sh.  
$ Actually, ksh appears to be the 1985 version (which is about the time when
$ the BRL shell was incorporated into UMAX4.2).  Oops.

It is my impression that BRL (Doug Gwyn, specifically) distributes a shell
based on the SysV.2 /bin/sh with job control, emacs-style editing, and
other goodies (though it's not as nice as bash :-).  Doug doesn't
distribute the SysV.3.2 sh, especially not one from 1985 :-). 

Chet Ramey

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