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From: cwilson@clapton.austek.oz (Chris Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Problems with /bin/sh and /usr/old/sh
Keywords: bourne shell
Message-ID: <101@clapton.austek.oz>
Date: 1 Feb 91 00:57:50 GMT
Reply-To: cwilson@austek.oz.au (Chris Wilson)
Organization: Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd., Adelaide, South Australia
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	I am having problems with the standard bourne shell under Umax
4.3 (4.0.0). It seems to be an old version of the shell and does not
like scripts that run perfectly on other machines (Ultrix and Sunos
4.1). The problems I have found are:

	It doesn't have functions

	Constructs line ${parameter:=word} don't work

	Sometimes, invoking a script several levels deep doesn't work.
	The script just exits silently. This occurs in installing
	X11R4 (in particular lib/Xt) where the Makefile calls
	/bin/install to install some include files.

I have tried /usr/old/sh. All the problems I have found don't occur
with this but the it won't work properly on NFS mounted file systems
(it doesn't glob file names).

My question is: Is there a later version on /bin/sh that is slightly
more modern and doesn't suffer from these problems ? Is there a
version of /usr/old/sh that will work on NFS file systems?

Thanks in advance for any information.

Chris Wilson
Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd., Technology Park, Adelaide, SA 5095 Australia
Phone: +61-8-260-0155		Fax: +6-18-260-8261
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