Cygwin and ATT ksh, specific example

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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
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