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-Apparently-From: To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh References: From: Galen Boyer Date: 25 Jan 2001 10:52:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: dkarr@tcsi.com's message of "24 Jan 2001 15:36:28 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 24 Jan 2001, dkarr@tcsi.com wrote: > However, as I've come to discover after much pain, if you're > already using Cygwin, there isn't much point to installing > pdksh. It's easy enough to create a symlink from > "/usr/bin/ksh.exe" to "/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. Well, if I could find the equivalent to getopts, I think I could get along without kornshell. I found this feature to be extremely useful when I was a heavy-duty KSH programmer, and now I am coding a few scripts again and would like to take advantage of it. -- Galen Boyer Fingers and toes, fingers and toes, forty things we share. Forty one if you include, the fact that we don't care. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple