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From: jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: cnews on a 3B1 with ksh
Summary: a new improved ksh
Message-ID: <1990May24.184457.19547@bagend.uucp>
Date: 24 May 90 18:44:57 GMT
References: <1990May22.212714.6570@bagend.uucp>
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In article <1990May22.212714.6570@bagend.uucp> I wrote:

>[ a variety of boo hoos about postnews not working with my ksh.]

Thanks for all (well, most) of the replys.

And the winner was, From: csvax.caltech.edu!andy (Andy Fyfe)

He pointed out that the version of ksh that was available from the
STORE, now osu-cis archives (thanks Brant, et. al.) is a later version
than the distribution ksh.  It even came with documentation!

andy>They are not the same.  Among other things, the STORE ksh claims
andy>to be "Version 06/03/86", accepts syntax such as $(date) and ${12},
andy>and comes complete with /etc/suid_exec.

andy>It also gets through both the perl Configure and cnews build scripts
andy>without spitting up.  The version from fixdisk 2 spat up on at least
andy>one or the other.

If you can read this you know that it must have worked.

I got several suggestions to try ": use /bin/sh" instead.  I know
that works on my XENIX box but it did not work for my 3b.

Others wanted to know how I could be so stupid to not know that
#! /bin/sh was not a SYSVism... Well they have quit reading this
by now anyway.

thanks
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