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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric De Mund <ead AT ixian DOT com>
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Subject: Re: KSH on Cygwin
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Folks,

Corinna Vinschen:
] What I don't quite get is: Is there actually any important feature in
] ksh which isn't already available in bash/tcsh/zsh?

There may be external considerations that trump feature considerations
(given that none of these shells is a drop-in replacement for ksh). Some
production hosts at some sites, or some hosts at government sites have
prohibitions against contrib software being installed on them. The
Solaris 2.6 production hosts at one former client of mine were
restricted in this way.

Shell scripts on these hosts were either ksh, csh, or sh scripts. If the
engineer wanted/needed to do a quick and dirty test of their ksh script
on a cygwin box on their desks, say, then first converting their script
to bash, tcsh, or zsh wouldn't be useful. (The client in question did
have a separate Solaris 2.6 development host, yet the above point is, I
hope, still valid.)

Regards,
Eric

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