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From: nic@marque.mu.edu (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
Message-ID: <1926@marque.mu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 08:52:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 08:52:16 1987
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Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Keywords: Brain dead system...
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In article <279@caus-dp.UUCP> marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>We are running Xenix Revision 3.4 from Intel and the Bourne shell
						      ^^^^^^
>won't let us do things like the following...
>
>	export ps1
>	cd()
>	{
		(function deleted)
>	}
>
>The program bombs at the cd() statment and returns the statment:
>-sh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
>
	I am not sure about Xenix, but Borne usually doesn't support
functions and this is a funcion definition!  Later, larger, big system
Bourne shells have had an added feature to declare functions but I
doubt that yours does.  You can have functions in "csh" and "ksh" 
however.
	Interesting but, regular MSDOS users have had the benefit of
the "csh" shell for some time, might there not be a version for
Xenix?
						- Nic