OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[Bob Stockler]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote (on Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:21:25PM -0500):

| John Esak propounded (on Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:52:38PM -0500):
| | Anyway, we are waiting on a driver for a muli-modem board... but I'm
| | actually glad we have just been testing so far... since the SYSTEM problem
| | Ken mentioned a while back is there ever-looming as a huge hangup. (SYSTEM
| | calls to the shell are calling .../*95*/something/shell  instead of just
| | plain /bin/sh... and if you *need* regular /bin/sh, you are getting a
| | kornish shell... which may/will break your scripts.)
| 
| What constructions are you using in Bourne scripts that break under
| Korn? 

Good question.  However, we were cautioned on OSR 5.0.x not to
make /bin/ksh root's default shell because it might cause some
scripts to fail.

| If the shell scripts start with #!/bin/sh, do OSR5 filePro binaries
| *still* run them using /u95/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh?

I just did an experiment that showed, while /u95/bin/sh may be
being used to execute SYSTEM commands, if the top line of the
shell script is #!/bin/sh then /bin/sh reads and executes the
lines in the script.  A KornShell unique test or command in the
script with such a top line causes it to fail.

Bob

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