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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:41:28 +0200
From: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: KSH on Cygwin
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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

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