On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:28:51 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>>
>>I am very grateful to the IBM people for 2.03 because I basically just
>>upgraded their code to fit into 4.2. So it was not as difficult as it
>>would have been if I had been on my own. I am, at best, a mid-level C
>>programmer. And BASH is not a simple package. Although it was faster
>>than my current attempts on TCL 8.6.2, which I need to update SQLite.
>>Of course, I still want GNU's version of awk, sed, and grep.
>>
> What's the likelihood that your branch, the Rocket branch, and the IBM
> branch (others?) will all get merged back into the GNU trunk?

Not my call. My branch is included on the CBT distribution and on github at
https://github.com/JohnArchieMckown/bash/tree/bash-4.2-zos
The github version has all the updates which will be on the CBT as
soon as it is put up. It also has a bash-executables.pax.Z which can
be unwound to get the run-time files.

>
> (You seem to have borrowed a C compiler again.)

I now have access to a z/OS 2.1 system which has a C license.

>
> -- gil

-- 
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Genghis Khan

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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