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From: jdb@mordor.ARPA (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sh changes
Message-ID: <8703@mordor.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 13:18:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 23 13:18:30 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Jun-86 05:10:38 EDT
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Reply-To: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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>> I am delighted that Sun 3.0 uses the System V shell.  (Shell functions
>> on my Sun at last!)  However, it is not completely compatible with the
>> previous shell.  For instance, the Berkeley-added "limit" command is
>> not implemented.
>
>"limit" command?  I just tried typing "limit" at a Sun 2.3 machine's Bourne
>shell, and it said "limit: not found".  I looked in the source to it, and to
>the 4.2BSD and 4.3betaBSD Bourne shell source, and didn't see any "limit"
>command.  Is it a late addition to 4.3BSD?

Oops.  No, although I haven't seen the released 4.3BSD source yet, I
don't think "limit" was ever added to "sh" at Berkeley.  The "sh" I used
on my VAX until recently wasn't vanilla BSD.  I was not careful enough
when I verified the "limit" command on the VAX here.

I could have sworn that I verified this feature was in the vanilla Sun 2
shell before I posted my followup.  I am embarrassed to admit that I was
a source of misinformation.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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