Re: Sequent S81 running Dynix

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From: K. Richard Magill
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1989 11:57

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In article <376@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>News, as in /usr/news (/usr/att/usr/news)?  According to Sequent
>AT&Ts news program is "broken."

No offense intended but I never have gotten the SysV news to work.
But then, I never tried long because the next minute I replaced it
with Bnews so...

>While I'm on problems.. (Not Sequent's, this one) we have ksh on
>our Symmetry (3.0.12) and it works fine as an interactive shell,
>but as a scripting language it hangs at times for no apparent
>reason.  We havn't really looked to hard to fix it, especcialy
>since we just got ksh-'88.  Anyone else have this problem?

Haven't tried ksh-88 but previously we saw no problems.  We usually
write scripts in sh though...

-- 
rich.

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From: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill)
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Subject: Re: Sequent S81 running Dynix
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Date: 19 Mar 89 11:57:56 GMT
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