Re: SVr3 csh

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1989 01:28

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>I got the C shell with SVR3.2 *directly* from AT&T and it's severly
>brain damaged.  Doesn't even have pushd/popd.  Someone told me
>AT&T picked it up from an old PDP-11 distribution and has never
>upgraded it.

Could be; a number of other systems seem to have done the same thing. 
Jeez, the 4.3BSD version one is certainly available to anybody with a
UNIX source license; I don't see why they're sticking with a crufty old
version.

S5R4 will have both the Korn and C shells; the latter will almost
certainly be based on a 4.3BSD-or-better version.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SVr3 csh
Message-ID: <1072@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 01:28:13 GMT
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