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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!math.fu-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: up to date version of ash ? where? Date: 2 Jun 1993 13:21:47 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ui9hb$a5j@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1u2vjc$7oh@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <PC123.93May27213713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <PC123.93May27213713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk>, pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes: ines: 13 > >In article <1u2vjc$7oh@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: > > During trying to make GNATS - 3.00 work (I'll try 3.01 later) I found that > there must be some problem with quotes under the stock 386BSD /bin/sh (ash). > The send-pr script chokes on something like unbalanced quotes or such. > >I just built bash, and symlinked /bin/sh to it. Works really well, >although it's funny that if you ask for /bin/sh as your shell you get >history editing! :-) -flame on- Ack, Pffft, bash, why a 300K overkill when you can have a smart one for 70K. Who needs command line editing these days? I only need to know four characters at my fingertips: m a k e :-) -flame off- BTW, sun-lamp carries a sh.tar in /Netbsd-current/usr/bin or something close. >-- >---------------------------------------------+ "A tight hat can be stretched. >Pete Chown, pc123@phx.cam.ac.uk (Internet) | First damp the head with steam > pc123@uk.ac.cam.phx (Janet :-) -+ from a boiling kettle." > [1m[5m[31m --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop. [0m