Different versions of sh

Joe Smith jms at tardis.Tymnet.COM
Fri Jan 18 18:41:44 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan2.174157.21530 at usenet.ins.cwru.edu> chet at po.CWRU.Edu writes:
>The BSD /bin/sh is the one from v7, with minimal changes for the 4.2 BSD
>signal semantics (restarted system calls, etc.) and # as a comment
>character.  The AT&T /bin/sh changed drastically beginning with System V.2,
>and further changes appeared in System V.3. 
	[Lots of good details deleted.]

>From the discription, it sounds like the sh that Sun ships with SunOS-3.5
and later is much closer to the ATT version than the BSD version.
Is this a correct interpretation?
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