Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:07:04 -0600 (CST) From: Mumit Khan Reply-To: Mumit Khan To: Earnie Boyd cc: "David M. Karr" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh In-Reply-To: <3A6F8094.BB14CFBF@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: > "David M. Karr" wrote: > > "/usr/bin/bash.exe". Poof. You have Korn shell. As far as I can > > tell, Bash can substitute for Korn shell in every area I'm familiar > > with. > > Nope, bash is not ksh. There are quite a few ksh93 features that are not implemented in bash (and possibly quite a few from ksh88 days, but I don't have details on those). > I knew that once upon a time. Thanks for reminding me. Hey miss bash > maintainer how about a postinstall script to ln -s bash.exe ksh.exe? Please don't. I personally very much dislike misleading links. If people want ksh, they should go and port it using the AT&T's now open source ksh93. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple