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Article #1229Re: Korn Shell on SVR4 (was: Is Unix V.4 a Kornshell system?)
From: Chris Calabrese
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 14:01
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 14:01
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In article <1990Sep20.171821.9033@cbnewsc.att.com> pgn@cbnewsc.att.com (Novorolsky) writes: >SVR4 supplies several shells, and yes, Korn shell is one of them. >As an additional item, the SVR4 ksh has some new features, >my favorite is job control. You can now move processes from foreground >to background and back. (Nothing new to csh users..., BTW, csh >is also supplied with SVR4.) This is not a shell issue, but an OS issue. Ksh has had job control for some years when run on OS' which support it. This includes BSD, SunOS, some versions of System V hacked up by Dave Korn, and others. It is standard System V which did not support job control, whether you were using csh or ksh. Name: Christopher J. Calabrese Brain loaned to: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ att!ulysses!cjc cjc@ulysses.att.com Obligatory Quote: ``pher - gr. vb. to schlep. phospher - to schlep light.philosopher - to schlep thoughts.''
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!ucbvax!ulysses!ulysses.att.com!cjc From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Korn Shell on SVR4 (was: Is Unix V.4 a Kornshell system?) Message-ID: <13796@ulysses.att.com> Date: 25 Sep 90 14:01:17 GMT References: <1bZc02vpcaWd01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1990Sep20.171821.9033@cbnewsc.att.com> Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 17