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Re: [ITP] mksh-R31b-1 -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:40:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ITP] mksh-R31b-1 -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell
- References: <fy1lumz7.fsf@blue.sea.net> <82r6l3osdy.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:56:41AM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:
>
> > Included in Debian stable (etch). This is nice lighweight
> > almost-bash-like shell.
>
> > http://packages.debian.org/mksh
>
> > Jari
>
> > sdesc: "Enhanced version of the Korn shell"
> > ldesc: "A shell which is MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain
> > Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the
> > original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature
> > improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for
> > interactive and especially script use."
> > category: Shells
> > requires: cygwin
>
> > a) manual
>
> > wget \
> > http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/setup.hint \
> > http://cygwin.cante.net/mksh/mksh-R31b-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>Binary package missing.
I wasn't paying attention. Do we really want two versions of ksh in the
distribution?
I'd say this was Igor's call.
cgf