Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!decatl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!brister From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.0 bourne shell scripting Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 90 13:32:42 GMT References: <6033@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <2071.26bd28b1@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <3520@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu's message of 7 Aug 90 13:34:28 GMT X-Checksum-Snefru: a9ef72fb 42952421 b2f9b7c4 15c035f6 On 7 Aug 90 13:34:28 GMT, bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula) said: > I am porting stuff from the HP-UX environment and thought that the syntax > rules for the Bourne shell were more or less universal. Is this an > Ultrix peculiarity (and why did they decide not to support the ":" form) > ? The Ultrix standard Bourne shell (/bin/sh) is an old version. To get the ":-" behaviour as well as user-definable functions, you want to use the shell /usr/bin/sh5 (which comes from System V release 2). James -- James Brister brister@decwrl.dec.com DEC Western Software Lab. .....!decwrl!brister