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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 02:54:45 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 27 Message-ID: <329E96C5.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <stanbE1M2D2.38I@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> CC: dyson@freebsd.org Stan Brown wrote: > > I realize all Berkley centric people think the workd revolves around > csh, but the rest of us don't. > Well, I do as much BSD development as almost anyone... I hate csh. :-). > > Seriously, whats the rationale behind this half hearted atempt at > making /bin/sh look like ksh ? > FreeBSD /bin/sh is actually kind-of close to Bourne shell with a few additions, like command editing. Using the Bourne shell is quite painful after using ksh and bash... (Yeah, I know that bash doesn't do everything that ksh does.) > > Is there some way that I can fix this ? > You might try to make ksh /bin/sh. It might work. If you are patient, I can check it out in a few days to see if it works (on 2.2.) John dyson@freebsd.org