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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: shells?
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I wrote:

>In all but truly ancient versions of /bin/sh, or perhaps in Research Unix
>versions, (I do not have my manuals handy to check), test is built in.

I should clarify the above by stating that the shell shipped as /bin/sh on
4.2 BSD, 4.3 BSD, and Ultrix systems is indeed a truly ancient version,
before people point out that these shells do not have `test' built in. 

Chet
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