Questions on AT&T System V release 4 .0 v 2.1

[douglasfir]

I decided to give System V a shot, since I've wanted to for so long. I am somewhat familiar with Slackware command line, and OpenBSD, but this is quite an old Unix, and there's some simple things I need some help with. Firstly, is there a guide that anyone can point me to that lists the commands for the default shell? second, I have installed the editing, and networking package, and would like to get TCP/IP connectivity, can someone point me to a hardware compatibility list or somewhere that can show me what network card would be compatible? also, my one really dumb question is, how can I run the equivalent command of "dir /p" in System V, I know it'd be "ls xxx" but I cant seem to find out what exactly. I really haven't been able to find a lot of useful information in my searching so far. Please be patient with me, I'm new to this distribution Thank you for any help!

 

[ajacocks]

Welcome to the forum @douglasfir .

The default shell in SysV is Korn shell. So, you can reference this:

https://www.qenesis.com/training/shell_programming/kshCheatsheet.pdf

And, this is a guide to the basics of AT&T UNIX System V:

https://www.livingcomputers.org/UI/UserDocs/UNIX-SVR3-(WE-3B2)/UNIX_System_V_Users_Guide_Second_Edition_1987.pdf

Overall, here is the reference manual:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_4/0-13-947037-9_Unix_System_V_Rel4_Users_Reference_Manual_1990.pdf

Hope that helps!
- Alex

 

[douglasfir]

Thank you Alex, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me I'm just installing packages now, and searching for information on a compatible network interface card. Kind of neat to use a Unix that's so old, and on a 270mb hard drive at that! the smallest drive I've used since I had a 386SX in the early 90s! if anyone knows anything about setting up networking in System V, I'd love to have more information! Thanks again!

 

[stefan-lokeldarn]

In Korn shell, it is fairly easy to implement 'dir' : do it as a function which runs /bin/ls.

somehthing like this:
---
dir()
{
/bin/ls "@$"
}
--

 

[stefan-lokeldarn]

and if i'm not wrong Korn shell support alias so:
---
alias dir="ls $@"
---