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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Where to get a cheap shell with history
Message-ID: <6923@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 00:50:29 GMT
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As quoted from <3282@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> by randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison):
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| In article <1486@osiris.UUCP> mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
| >	What is the status of the sh(1) released with MINIX ? It's 
| >a re-implement of the Bourne shell, and isn't it freely distributable ?
| >Might not be too hard to get a copy of that and hack and snip...
| 
| Alas, this isn't true.  Minix (including utilities) is copyright by Prentice
| Hall, with limited redistribution allowed, and that for educational purposes
| only.
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The Minix sh was written at Waterloo(?), and is PD; but it will take far more
than just a little hacking to add command history and shell functions/aliases
to it:  I looked it over when it came out.  I did hear that someone was working
on it, but I haven't seen any results yet... probably a proof that it *is* a
nightmare to add those abilities.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, Moderator of comp.sources.misc
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