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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!well!geoff From: geoff@well.sf.ca.us (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: Anyone using the FEB 93 c news? with sh(1)? Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 19:37:54 GMT Message-ID: <CByzv7.Hw2@well.sf.ca.us> References: <almCBy2nL.E33@netcom.com> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Nntp-Posting-Host: well.sf.ca.us Lines: 15 The February 93 C News is quite stable. It just fixes a few problems with the Performance Release. There is a Cleanup Release in the works; it's in the packaging stage now but we don't know when it will be ready to ship. Until recently, bash was still expanding wildcards inside quotes in case labels, which affects at least newsrun, as I recall; this has been fixed but I don't know if the fix has made it into a released bash yet. The ash that many people on 386s have been using as /bin/sh is just not a good enough sh emulation to even configure C News, let alone run it. Many of these bugs have been fixed in 4.4BSD; if you can wait for the 4.4 sh, it's much better. I have configured and built C News using the 4.4 sh on 4.4BSD (I think I had to change "(>$a >$b)" to "touch $a $b" (approximately) in one place).