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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!atha!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!odin!chet 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 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4eod75$me6@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu 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