AT&T KornShell93 officially available for Cygwin

[Elfyn McBratney]

> Hi,
> 
> the guys at AT&T Research Labs have finished the Cygwin port of their
> AST libraries and tools collection.
> 
> As promised a long time ago, I will maintain the Cygwin port of ksh93
> and probably the complete ast-open package later.
> 
> The Cygwin setup compatible ksh93 source and binary packages as well as
> a setup.hint file are available at:
> 
> ftp://omnium.de/cygwin/astksh.20030422-1.tar.bz2
> ftp://omnium.de/cygwin/astksh.20030422-1-src.tar.bz2
> ftp://omnium.de/cygwin/astksh.20030422-1.setup.hint
> 
> You can find a copy of the setup.hint file at the end of this message.
> It has been automatically generated by the AT&T "package" command.
> 
> The astksh package has been build on the latest Cygwin release from the
> official ast-open 2003-04-22 sources available at
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download.
> 
> The internal ksh93 version number for this release is "M 1993-12-28 o".
> 
> This version of ksh93 is statically linked and it comes with 35 common
> UNIX tools compiled as builtins:
> 
> basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cmp, comm, cp, cut, date, dirname,
> expr, fmt, fold, getconf, head, id, join, ln, logname, mkdir, mkfifo,
> mv, paste, pathchk, rev, rm, rmdir, stty, tail, tee, tty, uname, uniq,
> wc
> 
> These builtins are not enabled by default, so that they won't interfere
> with the standard Cygwin/GNU tools.
> The file /usr/doc/Cygwin/astksh-20030422-1.README explains how to enable
> these builtins and how to get at the man pages for them.
> 
> Bug reports, comments, suggestions etc. should be sent to
> ast-users@research.att.com, see 
> http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/mailgroup.html for details.
> The AST developers, me and other ksh93 users will be there to help.
> Of course, I will try to answer any questions that come up on the cygwin
> and cygwin-apps lists.
> 
> Please verify the package for inclusion in the Cygwin distribution.

Just one quip, ksh.exe is not stripped. Apart from that, it's looking good.

Elfyn