With the demise of the linux-abi subtree in the 2.4.20 kernel, I have some
legacy apps which I can no longer run using linux-abi.
While I can port most of them myself or find reasonable substitutes, there is
one which for me is a near-showstopper.
I have one legacy package that I _have_ to maintain at the office (no choice),
and it _requires_ the old SysV 'bs' (interpreter/etc. -- not quite basic but
rather a cross between basic, bc, and some other utilities). I would NOT like
to take on the porting of about 4 million lines of code in > 50 such bs scripts.
(the alternative is to move the apps to an HP-UX box which still provides bs,
but doing so would not make me and my boss happy campers) I can stay on 8.0 for
a while longer, but the push has been to get a machine in here with posix
threads (to replace something else I can't talk about) so 8.0 will have to give
way to 9 in a few months, and I'll have to face this problem then if not now.
So has anyone found a drop-in replacement for the 'bs' command? A pointer or a
URL for a source or binary rpm would be great, or of course a source tar would
also work.
Thanks,
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William W. Austin waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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