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From: dpb@iwtpu.UUCP (Darryl Baker)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sh changes
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 15:33:46 EDT
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In article <18951@rochester.ARPA> ken@rochester.UUCP (Comfy chair) writes:
>I hit an incompatability between the 4.2 BSD sh and Sun 3.0 sh. Here
>are the relevant parts of the manual pages:
			Text deleted
>In case you missed it, the difference is the extra colon in the Sun 3.0
>system. Questions: when and why was this change made?  Are there any
>other variants of Unix with this change? Has anybody's command file
>broken on account of this?
>	Ken

If you havn't noticed the Sun 3.0 shell is the System V.2 shell with
an echo(1) format compatible with BSD.





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