From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 15 19:30:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F355B37B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8G2QIv29919; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:26:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8G2QFn02112; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:26:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009160226.e8G2QFn02112@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Randall Hopper Cc: Gregory Bond , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message from Randall Hopper of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:19:57 EDT." <20000915211957.A1285@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:26:14 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Gregory Bond: > |> 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. > > Ok, maybe it isn't a universal Bourne-ism then. > > Reason I asked is my /bin/sh on IRIX at work has set -A. I wouldn't be surprised (but don't know - I've never even logged onto an IRIX box) if /bin/sh was a link to ksh ! > -- > Randall Hopper > aa8vb@nc.rr.com -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message