From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 20:26: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F07137B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:25:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05837; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8F3Pns34741; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:25:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <200009150325.e8F3Pns34741@thought.org> Subject: Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD To: gnb@itga.com.au (Gregory Bond) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: aa8vb@nc.rr.com (Randall Hopper), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au> from "Gregory Bond" at Sep 15, 2000 02:10:50 PM Organization: <> thought.org: pvblic service Unix since 1986... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to 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. > I have a csh or sh question--sorry for asking it this way; but is there any rational way of turning a file named foo.c to foo.o or simply foo with or without calling non-builtin programs? I think I remember a sh wizard showing me some bizarre sh command...but not sure it wasn't a dream! thanks guys, gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message