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Re: exotic shell sought

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From: Frank Terbeck <frank.terbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: exotic shell sought
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:25:21 +0100
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Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> is there a switch or a special symlink name
> which enables zsh to simulate a probably
> extremely old shell.
> 
> I'd need this to install Sun's java runtime environment 
> jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
[...]

Hi Helmut,

The zsh emulates the bourne shell if it's called as 'sh'.
The jre archive extracts for me with /bin/sh linked to zsh.

Regards, Frank

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