sh changes
Darryl Baker
dpb at iwtpu.UUCP
Thu Jun 19 05:33:46 AEST 1986
In article <18951 at rochester.ARPA> ken at rochester.UUCP (Comfy chair) writes:
>I hit an incompatability between the 4.2 BSD sh and Sun 3.0 sh. Here
>are the relevant parts of the manual pages:
Text deleted
>In case you missed it, the difference is the extra colon in the Sun 3.0
>system. Questions: when and why was this change made? Are there any
>other variants of Unix with this change? Has anybody's command file
>broken on account of this?
> Ken
If you havn't noticed the Sun 3.0 shell is the System V.2 shell with
an echo(1) format compatible with BSD.
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