Keith MARSHALL writes: > > Well, I'm sorry to dispute this, but that has not been my experience. My > first exposure to UNIX was with VentureCom's VENIX implementation, back in > 1989. That was essentially a SVR2 implementation, and didn't have a Korn > shell -- just a basic Bourne shell, which *did* have `type' as a builtin.
I stand corrected -- I just dug out my copy of the System V Interface Definition and it does show "type" as an sh built-in as of SvR2. I thought the SVID was the basis for the POSIX spec, but that seems to have been left out. -Larry Jones Mom must've put my cape in the wrong drawer. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff