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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: Bourne shell history (was Re: Finding the last arg)
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In article <316@audfax.audiofax.com> arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) writes:

>I am pretty sure that all of these were in the System III sh.
>	redirection of input/output for builtins (e.g. `read x < /dev/tty')

This did not appear until V.2.  The V.2 sh manual has a sentence to the
effect that `now you can do redirection with builtins'.

Another thing new with the V.2 shell that I forgot to mention is the source
conversion from `Bournegol' to C.

Chet
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