On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:03:34AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > I often missed features in FreeBSD ash that Solaris /bin/sh had, such as > using ^ sign as an | alternative (in germany one often has to search > the | key on bad configured terminals, which was not uncommon in field > service).
That actually isn't a Solaris'ism -- '^' was used as the pipe character in Ken Thompson's Version 4 shell, before '|' was decided on. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v4/ -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
