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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:34:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joakim Ryden <jo@ForumOne.Com>
To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD 
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Or why not install "the best of all worlds"; zsh. :-)

Joakim


Today at 2:10pm Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> suggested:

=>> Seems FreeBSD's Bourne shell's "set" command doesn't support -A.
=>
=>AFAICT "set -A" is a ksh-ism, not a bourne-ism.  On my Solaris systems, ksh 
=>has "set -A", but neither bash nor sh do.  Install one of the ksh verisions 
=>from the ports.
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=>Greg.
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