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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 11:58:25 GMT
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>Then let's fix ash. :-)

$ (sleep 2; echo 'your attention?' & sleep 1; echo -n 'May I have ';wait)

Us lonely Minix-386vm hackers have been using ash as the one and only
shell for some time now.  In that time I have fixed various syntax bugs
and an odd NULL pointer dereference.  I also enabled a few more builtin
functions and added readline support.  (But I'm using the small and
stupid editline replacement that I found with the rc shell to avoid GPV
contamination.)  The result is only 73k and even runs under 16 bit Minix
if you treat it gently.

I have placed the ash and editline sources in ftp.cs.vu.nl:kjb/ash for
those who might want to take a look at it.  I think it was once based on
the NetBSD 0.9 sources.  I could find out if someone wants me to.
Be careful with the Makefiles, they are a bit weird.
--
	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam