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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone using the FEB 93 c news? with sh(1)?
Message-ID: <CBzDC6.KG4@veda.is>
Date: 19 Aug 93 00:28:39 GMT
References: <almCBy2nL.E33@netcom.com> <CByzv7.Hw2@well.sf.ca.us> <CBz111.Ew8@kithrup.com>
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sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <CByzv7.Hw2@well.sf.ca.us> geoff@well.sf.ca.us (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>>The ash that many people on 386s have been using as /bin/sh is just not a
>>good enough sh emulation to even configure C News, let alone run it.

>It is if you apply the patches Jim Wilson posted a long time ago.

>Here they are, again:

[reposting deleted]

Aren't these the same patches that made it into patchkit 0.2.4
(or their predecessor) ??  It claimed to fix the same things in sh,
and it does work (mostly) much better than it used to.

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