* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0b422a38d8bbcb2e2ec9237744d298d3395ac5f7..0ad0e04bd37e9e5768e4b7150ceeda0fdcd86ff1 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-03-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
+
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
+
 2002-03-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 7b85a1b3c109a6a13563f58481df858fe22b14ee..ca69767b64f7d8ecdb6ac04a3b2c075fdf4fabfa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -8027,6 +8027,9 @@ packages.
 Some of these external utilities have a portable subset of features; see
 @ref{Limitations of Usual Tools}.
 
+There are other sources of documentation about shells.  See for instance
+@href{http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/, the Shell FAQs}.
+
 @menu
 * Shellology::                  A zoology of shells
 * Here-Documents::              Quirks and tricks
@@ -8043,10 +8046,12 @@ Some of these external utilities have a portable subset of features; see
 @node Shellology
 @section Shellology
 
-There are several families of shells, most prominently the Bourne
-family and the C shell family which are deeply incompatible.  If you
-want to write portable shell scripts, avoid members of the C shell
-family.
+There are several families of shells, most prominently the Bourne family
+and the C shell family which are deeply incompatible.  If you want to
+write portable shell scripts, avoid members of the C shell family.  The
+@href{http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/, the
+Shell difference FAQ} includes a small history of Unix shells, and a
+comparison between several of them.
 
 Below we describe some of the members of the Bourne shell family.