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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:38:58
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From: Paul Coltrin <pablo AT projtech DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin and ATT ksh, specific example
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Igor,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will give pd_ksh another try.

Paul

At 02:57 PM 7/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Michael A Chase wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:47:58 Paul Coltrin <pablo AT projtech DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have been working to port scripts from MKS ksh to ATT ksh on Cygwin.
>> > Here is a specific example of a problem I have run into.  When I try to
>> > execute an NT command script from ATTksh I get a permission error.  For
>> > example:
>> >
>> > $ksh
>> > $ ./gen_file.cmd
>> > ksh: ./pt_gen_file.cmd: cannot execute [Permission denied]
>> >
>> > However, I can run it just fine from Cygwin-bash and MKSksh.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions, please?
>>
>> Use bash?
>>
>> ATT ksh is practically another environment all to itself.  It is nice of
>> the ksh group to try to create a version that will work with Cygwin, but
>> bash will probably always be better integrated with Cygwin and its view of
>> MS Windows.
>>
>> I normally use the Bourne shell subset when I code shell scripts just to
>> avoid portablility problems even when I expect to use ksh or bash to run
>> them.
>
>I used pdksh v5.2.14 ( ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/ ) with no problems.
>It compiled and ran on cygwin OOTB.
>	Igor
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