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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:23:59 +0200
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi DOT tuura AT cern DOT ch>
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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To: "David M. Karr" <dkarr AT tcsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?
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> 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.

Cheers and hope this helps,
//lat
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