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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!dsbc.icl.co.uk!dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk!ejr From: ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell Date: 31 Jan 1996 11:53:08 GMT Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4enl74$ifr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <xcdensholio.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: E.J.Randall@bra0126.wins.icl.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Soren Dayton (csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote: : Our friend, ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall), wrote: : > ...[deleted]... : sounds like a ksh to me... but you knew that. /bin/ksh is the ksh which I installed; but /bin/sh is the /bin/sh that installed from the FreeBSD2.1.0-R distribution. It's this /bin/sh that I'm complaining about, not pdksh ! Read the man page on sh(1); Search for "ENV" and "alias". Those words are there, I don't think they should be ! What is the /bin/sh that comes with 2.1.0-R by default ? How do I disable the extended "features" in it ? Thanks, Ed