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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:19:57 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000915211957.A1285@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:10:50PM %2B1100
References:  <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au>

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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.

Ok, maybe it isn't a universal Bourne-ism then.

Reason I asked is my /bin/sh on IRIX at work has set -A.

-- 
Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com


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