loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) (03/13/90)
In article <12332@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: > 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. That's only the common sense attitude! 8-} Encore's UMAX4.2 (loosely based upon 4.2BSD) included the BRL version of the SysV3.2 /bin/sh. Encore's 4.3BSD release seems to have had this replaced by the older 4.3BSD /bin/sh. A note in one of their documents says to check (and change) all the shell scripts and Makefiles on your machine to "assure BSD compatibility". The SysV3.2 shell is still available in "/usr/old/sh". And, on a positive note, they do the world one favor and distribute ksh as a standard part of every system. That, at least, can be used to replace /bin/sh (with just the loss of "^" or so). Actually, ksh appears to be the 1985 version (which is about the time when the BRL shell was incorporated into UMAX4.2). Oops. John -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 x284 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group DISCLAIMER: These thoughts and typos are my own...