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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Bugs in /bin/csh in AIX version 2.2.1
Summary: Programming in csh?
Message-ID: <665377982.7714@mindcraft.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 03:13:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.192649.6510@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <1991Jan31.192649.6510@agate.berkeley.edu>
richmond@astroplasma.berkeley.edu (Michael Richmond) writes:
>  We have run into a number of bugs with /bin/csh on our RTs after upgrading
>them to AIX version 2.2.1...
> [ ... ]
>Can we be safe by
>switching our programming to the Bourne shell?

Safer, anyway.  UNIX vendors have to be fairly conservative about what
they do to the Bourne shell, because they use sh scripts to boot their
systems, build their kernels, install their software, etc.

I program in the subset of sh that's understood by BSD sh.  My scripts
run on dozens of different systems without modification, including all
three flavors of AIX.
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	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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