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From: cochrane@spot.Colorado.EDU (COCHRANE JIM T)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST-UNIX sh.prg
Summary: problems with sh
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Date: 30 May 88 19:25:09 GMT
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Has anyone figured out how to use sh in the newly posted ST-UNIX
utilities (comp.binaries.st) by Andrew Smith and Steve Ashcroft.
The main problems I'm having with it are:

	1. I can't seem to set PATH to multiple paths, i.e.:
		PATH=a:\bin:b:\bin
		It only finds files if the path is a single directory
		i.e.: PATH=b:\bin

	2. I can't get it to read and execute a shell script; if I
		type something like: cmdfl
		where "cmdfl" is a shell script which is either in
		the current directory or in the (single directory)
		path, sh will reply:
		cmdfl not found
		It will execute commands such as for, if, while
		interactively.  (It will also execute *.prg or
		*.tos files with no problem.)

Has anyone been able to get this to work; or if it's a bug, has anyone
been able to figure out some other way to do it?  It seems strange that
it would have these problems since these are two of the most important
functions performed by the Bourne shell.  Also if anyone has been able
to get it to read in its environmental variables upon startup, I would
appreciate hearing about how that's done too.

Thanks for any help or suggestions on this.

Jim Cochrane

cochrane@spot.colorado.EDU