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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: flavours of shell - what is there?
Summary: ksh88
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.121938.9078@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 12:19:38 GMT
References: <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <2507@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2507@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Greatful Ed) writes:
> In article <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
> >The ones I know of are simply:
> >	sh	 csh	 bash	 ksh
> 
>   I would also be interested in knowing what the pros and cons of each
> are.  Plus, does anybody know where I would be able to find sources for
> each of these shells that would be compatable with an AT&T Unix-Pc
> under a SystemV R3.5 environment.

ksh88 from AT&T compiles straight-up on the unix-pc -- the only tweaks
i made were for the options i wanted.

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