Ultrix 4.0 bourne shell scripting

[Steve Watt]

>In article <BRISTER.90Aug7093243 at westworld.decwrl.dec.com> brister at decwrl.dec.com (James Brister) writes:
>
>The Ultrix standard Bourne shell (/bin/sh) is an old version. To get the
>":-" behaviour as well as user-definable functions, you want to use the
>shell /usr/bin/sh5 (which comes from System V release 2).

Is there some reason for DEC to continue distributing the old sh?  I thought
that sh5 was a complete superset of it....

s5make and make are at least different enough...  Sorta...
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