Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:41:28 +0200 From: Thomas Baker To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: KSH on Cygwin Message-ID: <20020618134128.A2084@mail.gmd.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Baker , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020614212340 DOT 84404 DOT qmail AT mail DOT com> <20020616061322 DOT GA10545 AT butch DOT jgcomp DOT com> <20020617150837 DOT A836 AT mail DOT gmd DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020617150837.A836@mail.gmd.de>; from thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:08:37PM +0200 On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:08:37PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > Okay, the KSH seems to be working under Cygwin at last, > but I'm not sure what I gain with the slower execution; the > extra binaries and related baggage; and the dodgy man page. > A simple Cygwin setup option that installs a binary and a > man page would have been less confusing. For the record, I did not intend to sound negative about Cygwin here... -- the Cygwin phenomenon is amazing, and of course patience is required... I have been looking forward to KSH in particular, because that is what it will take for me to move completely from MKS Toolkit to Cygwin. When I first installed Cygwin on the same machine as MKS they clashed with each other and it took alot of mailing-list searches to discover exactly what was happening and to disentangle them (one problem was terminal-oriented environment variables). I have had to switch back and forth between different-colored windows running MKS and Cygwin to run particular commands, but a running KSH now makes it possible to move the rest over to Cygwin. For a non-techie like myself, however, the extra effort involved in dealing with the extra baggage of the AST package really adds up, so I humbly suggest that a Cygwin setup package for KSH would be desirable as well. Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker Thomas DOT Baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/