In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
> On May 8, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
>
> > Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It is currently believed that every system has at least *some*
> >> shell implementation that supports functions [...]
>
> > 4.3BSD doesn't!
>
> Is /bin/sh the only Bourne shell-like shell available on the system?
> No /bin/ksh, /bin/sh5 or some other extended shell that supports shell
> functions? If that's true, you've just solved one of the
> long-standing doubts the new autoconf maintainers have had for quite
> some time.
You can't depend on ksh or sh5 being available on 4.3BSD boxes and the
4.3BSD shell certainly does not support shell functions.
jeff
