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From: chet@po.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell
Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:42:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Message-ID: <4eod75$me6@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk>
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In article <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk>,
Ed Randall <ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk> wrote:

>Now I'm sure masses of people will rush to correct me, but I'd always thought
>that a "proper" Unix box used a Bourne shell for /bin/sh, and a Bourne shell
>didn't have aliases.  Or take any notice of silly $ENV variables.

The Posix.2 standard for sh includes both aliases and rules for sourcing
the file named by $ENV at startup.  The FreeBSD sh is moving towards
Posix.2 conformance.
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu