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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <stanbE1Mw49.41q@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 13:28:57 GMT Lines: 53 Sender: stanb@netcom6.netcom.com stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: Agian , sorr to follow up like this. I'm not syre what's going on here. My newsreader (nn) is sudenly telling me that the article I am folosing up to has 8 bit characteres in it, and refuses to take the folowup. Then it offees me a chance to fix it to 7 bit. When I do this it accepts the articel. A little while later the article shows up in my mail with "aritcle folow failed, noe newsgroups line" Anyway: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) writes: >stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: >> Now I have more problems. The scripts assume that *only* ksh will >>source a file pointed to by the $ENV variable. Well geuss what the FreeBSD >>/bin/sh tries to load what is pointed to by the $ENV variablke. It of >[...] >> Seriously, whats the rationale behind this half hearted atempt at >>making /bin/sh look like ksh ? >I think it is called "POSIX" :-) I may be wrong, though. No that;s part of my pint./bin/sh as suplied with FreeBSD 2.1.5 is neitger posix compliant, nor bourne shell compliant. It has some features of the posix shell that cause it be try to do things that iy can't do, because it's not fully posix compliant. The resultof this is serious problems wth the whole system, since *many* things are shell scripta te use /bin/sh. > /Mikko >-- > Mikko Tyvldjdrvi_____________________________________________mikko@dynas.se > DynaSoft >-- >Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 >Factory Automation Systems >Atlanta Ga. >-- >Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! >Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer >(c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.