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From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 21:19 -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> 
> [ ... shell's -A option ... ]
> 
> Reason I asked is my /bin/sh on IRIX at work has set -A.

You might invoke the shell with /bin/sh, but that doesn't mean
it's really a Bourne shell.  Maybe 'file /bin/sh' and 'ls -li
/bin/*sh' will tell you something.

But I guess it's not a freebsd-stable issue.  The reason for not
having an -A option was stated as well as an alternative solution
("man ascii") has been provided several times.


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