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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93May31174850@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <1u2vjc$7oh@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <PC123.93May27213713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au 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. -- Brett Lymn