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From: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.0 bourne shell scripting
Message-ID: <593@wattres.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 06:37:50 GMT
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>In article <BRISTER.90Aug7093243@westworld.decwrl.dec.com> brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) writes:
>
>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).

Is there some reason for DEC to continue distributing the old sh?  I thought
that sh5 was a complete superset of it....

s5make and make are at least different enough...  Sorta...
-- 
Steve Watt
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