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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: New version of BASH 1.05 for MiNT
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.110356.24886@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:03:56 GMT
Reply-To: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk ()
Organization: Nottingham University
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I've just finished a new version of MiNT-BASH 1.05. Question is, do people
want me to post the binary to atari.archive or will the diffs (from the
original (but patched) distribution) suffice?

The new version has the follow advantages over Eric Smith's original port:

	o It's about 30k smaller (not much :-( )
	o It doesn't die if given a 14 char filename (Minix partition)
	o You can now put a hostname in PS1/PS2 prompts (I call my machine
		tiny68)
	o It doesn't appear to suffer from the bug afflicting both BASH
		and ksh which causes them to send themselves SIGSTOP at a
		random point in time. (I haven't found the bug, though.)

If anyone wants any other particular features, nows the time to say so. :-)
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