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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Standard Shells On System V.4
Message-ID: <12332@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Mar 90 23:31:47 GMT
References: <269@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <269@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> martin@macadam (Martin Foord) writes:
>Does any shell wizard out there know what standard shells will be available on
>UNIX System V.4. That is, I've heard ksh will be, what about csh and will it
>have any enhancements. What about sh (and which version, will it have functions
>etc. or just be the standard BSD /bin/sh with very little).

Nobody in their right mind would "upgrade" the SVR3.2 /bin/sh to the 4.3BSD
/bin/sh, especially when it would break existing customer applications.

ksh and csh have been announced as part of SVR4.0.