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From: sasjaa@unx.sas.com (Jim Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MS-SH 1.6.2 patches
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.113901.25213@unx.sas.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 11:39:01 GMT
References: <3860@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
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In article <3860@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>Some patches for the MS-DOS bourne shell 1.6.2:
>
>- a fatal bug with commands in () ("sub-shell") was fixed
>- #! in shell scripts works now correctly with, for example, gawk
>- the internal commands of COMMAND.COM are recognized
>- the type internal command of sh was changed to recognize
>  the internal commands of sh as well as COMMAND.COM commands
>
>You may have problems patching the sources with the patch program
>because the patches were derived from my OS/2 version which has lots of
>other changes. The line numbers in these patches are not correct, but
>they should work, because they are context diffs.
>
>My OS/2 version has these changes and some other nice features:
>- background processes
>- "jobs" command and key for list of bg processes
>- reporting of exit status of ending bg processes
>- increased length of expanded command line (2k, max. would be 32k)
>- real pipes
>
>May be I post it to comp.binaries.os2 sometimes.
>
>Kai Uwe Rommel
>rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
>
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>
>--
>/* Kai Uwe Rommel
> * Munich
> * rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
> */

I dare say that most of us will have some problems with this as the sources
have not been posted to this group. just the BINARIES. Kind of hard to apply
source diffs to binaries.....:-(

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