Standard Shells On System V.4

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Mar 10 09:31:47 AEST 1990


In article <269 at macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> martin at macadam (Martin Foord) writes:
>Does any shell wizard out there know what standard shells will be available on
>UNIX System V.4. That is, I've heard ksh will be, what about csh and will it
>have any enhancements. What about sh (and which version, will it have functions
>etc. or just be the standard BSD /bin/sh with very little).

Nobody in their right mind would "upgrade" the SVR3.2 /bin/sh to the 4.3BSD
/bin/sh, especially when it would break existing customer applications.

ksh and csh have been announced as part of SVR4.0.



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