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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Different versions of sh
Summary: Sun's is closer to ATT than BSD, right?
Keywords: Bourne shell arguments
Message-ID: <1440@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 07:41:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.174157.21530@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <1991Jan2.174157.21530@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> chet@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
>The BSD /bin/sh is the one from v7, with minimal changes for the 4.2 BSD
>signal semantics (restarted system calls, etc.) and # as a comment
>character.  The AT&T /bin/sh changed drastically beginning with System V.2,
>and further changes appeared in System V.3. 
	[Lots of good details deleted.]

From the discription, it sounds like the sh that Sun ships with SunOS-3.5
and later is much closer to the ATT version than the BSD version.
Is this a correct interpretation?
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