Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

[Larry Jones]

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