SYS V Bourne Shell .shrc file

Dave Burton daveb at i88.isc.com
Sat Dec 23 04:56:37 AEST 1989


In article <1792 at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
|... I examined /bin/sh with a binary
|display program looking for undocumented options.  Instead,  I ran
|into the string .shrc. ....
|Other SYSV users,  let me know if you have it.
|Our system consists of two NCR Towers running SYSVR1 and SYSVR2 and
|I have confirmed it's existence on another Tower running SYSVR3.2.

The SVR3.2 sources from AT&T do not have any .shrc processing; only .profile
and /etc/profile are supported. Any sh that has .shrc has been modified by the
vendor and therefore (the use of .shrc) is non-portable.
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Dave Burton
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