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Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?
- To: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>, "David M. Karr" <dkarr at tcsi dot com>
- Subject: Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 05:56:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
--- "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch> wrote:
> > Is it reasonable to link "bash.exe" to "ksh.exe" in the Cygwin
> > distribution? Is there any feature in Korn shell that is NOT in Bash,
> > or any other reason why this might be a bad thing to do?
>
> IIRC, zsh has a mode to emulate ksh, and will do so automatically if it
> starts as "ksh"-named process. There have been messages about porting
> zsh to cygwin on this list, so take a look around to see if you can find
> the port. Then create a symlink ksh to zsh or just copy the program to
> ksh. Haven't tried that though.
>
YRC, zsh will emulate ksh and it emulates the bourne shell, although there may
still be bugs in doing so. IIRC, it build OOB.
Cheers,
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