bfox@bears.ece.ucsb.edu (Brian Fox) (05/27/91)
Archive-name: unix/shell/bash/1991-05-22 Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/bash* [18.71.0.38] Original-posting-by: bfox@bears.ece.ucsb.edu (Brian Fox) Original-subject: Official Version of Bash Released: Welcome to 1.08! Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Hi everyone. Bash (The Bourne Again SHell) version 1.08 is available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] in the file /pub/gnu/bash-1.08.tar.Z. This version fixes more bugs then I would like to mention over the previous official release of 1.05. It also contains many fixes to the unofficial release of 1.07. The diffs were so large (from 1.07 to 1.08) that I decided against a diffs file; the only packaging is the entire source. I think that future releases of Bash will not include the GNU Readline Library; that will be available as a separate package Real Soon Now. Bash should compile right `out of the box' on most systems; the following machines are supported in machines.h: Sun workstations, running SunOS3.x or SunOS4.x, and the Sun386i. DEC Vax, DecStations under Ultrix, including MIPSEL. Generic 386 System V and BSD machines. Pyramid. IBM RT and RISC6000, as well as PS2 and 379 under AIX. Sequent Symmetry and Balances running Dynix. Generic 386 running Interactive Unix 2.2. Gould 9000 running UTX/32 R2.1a. NeXT. HP machines, running more/BSD or HP/UX 6.x, 7.x. Xenix286, and 386. Convex. Sony workstations, including RISC machines. AT&T 3b, and 386 machines. Encore 88000 and Multimax. Clipper (Orion 1/05). Random BSD is68k machines. Apollo workstations running SR10.2. SGI machines. Data General AViiON. Harris Night Hawk. Tektronix machines. NCR Tower 32, running System V. Stardent, Concurrent, Ardent. Cadmus. In addition, it should be easier than ever to port Bash to a new machine, due to more feature specific #defines and Posix signal support. As always, bug reports for 1.08 should be sent to: bash-maintainers@ai.mit.edu The discussion list "bug-bash@ai.ait.edu" often contains information about new ports of Bash, or disussions of new features or behaviour changes that people would like. When you send a bug report, please include: * the version number of Bash * the machine and OS that it is running on (see .machine or .made) * a description of the bug * a recipe for recreating the bug reliably * a fix for the bug if you have one! While the maintainers of Bash do not promise to fix all bugs, we would like this shell to be the best that we can make it. Have fun using Bash! Brian Fox PS: Special thanks go to Chet Ramey, for his continuing excellent work on Bash. -- comp.archives file verification prep.ai.mit.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 14910 wheel 768679 May 22 15:25 /pub/gnu/bash-1.08.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 14910 wheel 51378 May 24 13:40 /pub/gnu/bash.diffs-1.08-p1.Z found bash ok prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/bash*