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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Minix shell compatibility questions
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 01:27:25 GMT
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Albert S Woodhull (aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu) wrote:
: I have been trying to install gzip on Minix 1.7.0, and in the interests
: of determining what differences may exist between Minix and other
: Unix-like systems I have been going at it the recommended way, using
: a "configure" script that is supposed to test a system for a lot of 
: different things and generate a Makefile and a config.status file.

: I have been having difficulty with this configure script, and I am
: wondering if there are some known differences between Minix sh or ash
: (I tried both) and "standard" Bourne shells.

The Minix 1.5 shell (sh) (I haven't checked 1.7) is non-standard, or
buggy, in a number of respects.  I found this when I wrote the man 
page for it, but the code is almost incomprehensible and really
problematic to debug. I assume the 1.7 ash is less so.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

