peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (10/20/89)
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guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (10/22/89)
Well, AT&T didn't supply "csh" with S3, nor with any S5 release prior to S5R4, so "system 5 and system 3" really means "somebody's S3-based and S5-based releases, with a 'csh' from somewhere". In at least some cases, the "somewhere" is a source of a rather old version of "csh" with plenty of other problems. The SunOS 4.0.3 version (derived from the 4.3BSD version, so I suspect any 4.3BSD-derived version and maybe any 4.xBSD-derived version acts the same) did: auspex% echo foo\ bar foo bar auspex% echo 'foo\ bar' foo bar auspex% so I suspect the only "real" S5 "csh", namely the one coming in S5R4 which will be derived from, I suspect, the SunOS 4.1 one (since that one should, last I heard, not use the 8th bit of characters for quoting), may do the same thing.
tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (10/22/89)
In article <2551@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >Well, AT&T didn't supply "csh" with S3, nor with any S5 release prior to >S5R4, so "system 5 and system 3" really means "somebody's S3-based and >S5-based releases, with a 'csh' from somewhere". AT&T 6386E running Sys V/386 3.2 out of the box: $ what /bin/csh /bin/csh: /bin/csh.sl 1.1 3.2 06/24/88 63059 AT&T-SF -- "Take off your engineering hat | "The filter has | Tom Neff and put on your management hat." | discreting sources." | tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (10/24/89)
>AT&T 6386E running Sys V/386 3.2 out of the box: > > $ what /bin/csh > /bin/csh: > /bin/csh.sl 1.1 3.2 06/24/88 63059 AT&T-SF Hmmm. If they put it in for Xenix compatibility, perhaps it's the same one that's in Xenix; is that one of the really horrible old creaky ones that hasn't been properly stamped out? (At least it'll probably be stamped out in S5R4, and replaced with a proper 4.3BSD-or-later vintage one.)