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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:19:48 +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: <20020618151001.N30892@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:10:01PM +0200

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:10:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:41:28PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > 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
> 
> What I don't quite get is:  Is there actually any important
> feature in ksh which isn't already available in bash/tcsh/zsh?

I wrote a two-page script in KSH about eight years ago and
still depend on it on a daily basis for my work.  When I
try simply changing the #! line to bash I get error messages
suggesting that bash lacks certain features or expresses them
in another syntax.  I am not a programmer, just an amateur
shell-script writer, and do not have the time to solve these
various problems.  For all I know, a real shell expert could
port the script in twenty minutes; I wouldn't know.

One KSH-specific construct, I believe, is "print -u3"
to park some output in a buffer with the handle "3".

Tom

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