This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Cygwin and ATT ksh, specific example
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:57:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and ATT ksh, specific example
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:47:58 Paul Coltrin <pablo@projtech.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
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon.
It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/