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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: converting sh scripts to C code
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Date: Sat, 28-Jun-86 19:17:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 28 19:17:31 1986
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In article <2801@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:

>In article <6854@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>if you have a modern shell (the ancient Bourne shell that comes with 4BSD
>>does not qualify), you may not see all that much improvement.
>> ...
>>If you are not running the SVR2 sh or equivalent, you need to upgrade
>>your shell.  Only after that is accomplished is it worth considering
>>conversion to C, in my opinion.
>No problem, I just plunk down $40000 dollars for a SVR2 source licence
>(I can't buy a binary, the binary won't run on my machine), figure out
>how to extract the source for sh from the distribution tape (My system
>doesn't HAVE cpio, yet that is how AT&T insists on distributing), then
>throw the rest of the tape away.  SURE.  I am also in need of a bridge
>in brooklyn.
>At least an sh to C converter program is AVAILABLE at a sane price.
>I sure wish AT&T had a more lenient licensing/upgrade policy.

I cannot speak for /bin/sh but however ksh (superset of Bourne, many bells
and whistles, almost as efficient as SysV Bourne) is available as source
for approximately $2000 (non AT&T sites) and will compile under a number of
BSD variants as well as SysV.  It was authored by David Korn of Bell Labor-
atories (ulysses!dgk).  Korn himself posted a notice to this effect in 
net.unix-wizards [I think] some time ago.