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In <1992Nov3.191253*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:

>Now this time, is advocating Bourne Shell part of your plan :>?

>Well, I'd say it does NOT work very well, especially when having to deal
>with that Bourne shell DEC has been providing their customers with over the
>years in Ultrix.  Has it been updated at all since 4.2BSD --> Ultrix 1.1?

>And for you Tom C., same thing goes for Convex Computer.

>  ~~h

As a matter of fact, DEC has done absolutely nothing to fix the hideous
atrocities they have committed to /bin/sh.  As a consequence of DEC's
unspeakable hairballs in this area, Servio now ships a copy of bash as a
courtesy to all of our Unix customers.  A descriptive list of the obscenities
present in DEC's /bin/sh is also shipped.

Note that Sun's /bin/sh is only slightly better.  It has no "ulimit" command,
and the environment table handling is STILL broken (ever since 4.0).

I could carp about the problems with other vendors' implementations of "Bourne"
shell, but DEC by far has the worst.

--j
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