Subject: Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?
From: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
To: "Lassi A. Tuura" <[email-masked]>, "David M. Karr" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:56:11 -0700 (PDT)

--- "Lassi A. Tuura" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Is it reasonable to link "bash.exe" to "ksh.exe" in the Cygwin
> > distribution?  Is there any feature in Korn shell that is NOT in Bash,
> > or any other reason why this might be a bad thing to do?
> 
> IIRC, zsh has a mode to emulate ksh, and will do so automatically if it
> starts as "ksh"-named process.  There have been messages about porting
> zsh to cygwin on this list, so take a look around to see if you can find
> the port.  Then create a symlink ksh to zsh or just copy the program to
> ksh.  Haven't tried that though.
> 

YRC, zsh will emulate ksh and it emulates the bourne shell, although there may
still be bugs in doing so.  IIRC, it build OOB.

Cheers,

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