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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: KSH portability
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Date: 11 May 88 17:32:00 GMT
References: <295@cmtl01.UUCP> <12142@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <631@vsi.UUCP> <4063@mtgzz.UUCP> <341@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk>
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In article <341@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk> fox@alice.UUCP (Paul Fox) writes:
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>Well, I managed to get it running on Xenix/386 very easily. Xenix/286 was
>a different kettle of fish. In fact I couldnt spare the time to do the work.

I ported it to Xenix/286 (2.1.3) by typing "make" and reading a magazine
for a while. I don't recall any problems at all (this is the ksh-i
versions, the older versions took some doing).

I have ported it to Sun, Ultrix, Alliant, 3B1, Convex, and Encore. All
were relatively easy, but the Convex version still doesn't have working
line editing, due to a bug I don;t have time to chase.

It doesn't ALWAYS self install so smoothly, but the changes are usually
in the makefiles (and scripts) rather than the code.
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