Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developers
Message-ID: <8673@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Oct 88 19:36:10 GMT
References: <8658@smoke.ARPA> <216100004@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 14

In article <216100004@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I'm sorry, I missed something here. My understanding is that it is the OS
>that supports job control (or not), not the shell.

Actually, it's both.

>While sh doesn't deal with stopped/background jobs, ksh does,

On BSD systems.  Whether or not that is provided for SVR4.0 is a mystery.

>Is the BRL shell public domain, or obtainable for a
>nominal fee? Or do you have to have sh source first?

It's available free to anyone with a SVR2 or later source license.