[ITP] mksh-R31b-1 -- Enhanced version of the Korn shell

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Sep 13 13:41:00 GMT 2007


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



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