X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AE70C65.9070104@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:06:13 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ash "gotcha", other 1.7 upgrade wrinles References: <4AE60FFF DOT 7080909 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> <4AE613F4 DOT 4080108 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 10/27/2009 01:18 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> It is not gratuitous. 'ash' is now 'dash' instead of 'bash'. Dash is a >> more standards compliant shell which is also faster. > > Huh? ash was never bash, and ash.exe was part of the dash package last > I checked, so I'm confused by the above statement. Yes, poor wording on my part. I meant 'sh', which I suppose isn't particularly interesting in this thread. In any case, my point to the OP is that the change of 'ash' coming from the 'dash' package was intentional and for a good reason (i.e. to provide a better 'ash' than we've had in the past). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple