README file for the Heirloom Bourne Shell
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This is a portable version of the OpenSolaris Bourne Shell. It is known
to compile on:

Linux           glibc 2.2 and above, diet libc
Solaris         9 and above
Open UNIX       8.0.0
HP-UX           B.11.11 and above
AIX             5.1
Tru64 Unix      5.1
FreeBSD         5.4
NetBSD          2.0

To build and install, see the settings in the "makefile" and adjust
them if necessary. You can also build a RPM package with the command
"rpmbuild -tb heirloom-sh-<version>.tar.bz2".

New releases of this project are announced on Freshmeat. If you want to
get notified by email on each release, use their subscription service at
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/bournesh/>.

The project homepage is currently at <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net>.

Report bugs to

Gunnar Ritter
Freiburg i. Br.
Germany
<http://heirloom.sourceforge.net>
<Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de>                           7/2/05