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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
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In article <PC123.93May27213713@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk>, pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
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>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."
>


--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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