From: Janne Himanka (janne@seita.oulu.fi)
Date: 11/18/92


From: janne@seita.oulu.fi (Janne Himanka)
Subject: 8-bit clean bash and readline-rc available.
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:13:14 GMT

I just made today bash 1.10 with 8 bit patches and it seems to work
fine. The reason why I didn't compile version 1.12 is that there are
(to my knowledge) no 8 bit patches for bashes newer than 1.10. I have
used this patched 1.10 ever since 1.10 arrived (about a year?) in
non-linux machines and it seems quite stable.

I also compiled the rc shell with the patched GNU readline.

I'll put these binaries in nic.funet.fi tomorrow.

A clarification for newbies: an 8-bit clean shell allows you to type
in e.g. all iso-8859-1 characters, and thus allows you to use your
national alphabet in the shell.

Janne