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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 at 17:19:26 -0400, David T-G wrote:
> Will --
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> ...and then Will Yardley said...
> % David T-G wrote:
> % > > it seems kind of silly to me - i rarely use the bourne shell but i
> ...
> % >=20
> % > No, it's not silly at all -- /bin/sh is one of the things that can be
> ...
> % > Doing away with /bin/sh would be a Very Bad Thing.
> %=20
> % agreed. i meant it was kind of silly that linux uses bash instead of
> % the bourne shell. i was certainly not trying to suggest that we abolish
> % the bourne shell!
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> Ah :-) Well, you can't use the Bourne shell without proper licensing,
> and GNU/Linux is all about free stuff. There's a written-from-scratch
> PDksh public domain ksh out there, but bash is the only ready-today free
> sh clone (and then some :-) out there.
Ahem.
This may (or may not) be true of the original Bourne shell, but the *BSD
/bin/sh is very real, and is even more free than bash in terms of
licensing. :-)
And then there's still zsh, sash, and many other variations probably.
(This is getting very off-topic for mutt-users, we should probably take
it off-list.)
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Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Today's subliminal thought is:
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