Ultrix 4.0 bourne shell scripting

[Edward Vielmetti]

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).

Interesting.  Perhaps that explains why the "xon" script I got from
somewhere (last modified by dgreen at cs.ucla.edu) which fires up an
X application on another host dies with "bad substitution" or some
such when I use /bin/sh, but works OK with /usr/bin/sh5.

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv at math.lsa.umich.edu>