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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: up to date version of ash ? where?
Date: 31 May 93 17:48:50
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of Thu, 27 May 1993 20:37:19 GMT

>>>>> On Thu, 27 May 1993 20:37:19 GMT, pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) said:
Pete> Nntp-Posting-Host: bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk

Pete> In article <1u2vjc$7oh@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:

Pete>    During trying to make GNATS - 3.00 work (I'll try 3.01 later) I found that
Pete>    there must be some problem with quotes under the stock 386BSD /bin/sh (ash).
Pete>    The send-pr script chokes on something like unbalanced quotes or such.

Pete> I just built bash, and symlinked /bin/sh to it.  Works really well,
Pete> although it's funny that if you ask for /bin/sh as your shell you get
Pete> history editing!  :-)

This will work but be careful, there are some cases where bash does
not work properly.  When I was installing epoch I would get some
bizarre errors from the make file until I made /bin/sh plain old ash
instead of bash.

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Brett Lymn