KSH is pdksh

Wed Jan 24 17:25:00 GMT 2001

"David M. Karr" wrote:
>> >>>>> "Galen" == Galen Boyer <galenboyer@yahoo.com> writes:
> Galen> After reviewing some archives, I find that pdksh is cygwin's
> Galen> version of ksh. Is this still available and where do I get it?
> Galen> My c:/cygwin/bin doesn't contain it.
>> As Larry explained, this is something different.
>> However, as I've come to discover after much pain, if you're already
> using Cygwin, there isn't much point to installing pdksh. It's easy
> enough to create a symlink from "/usr/bin/ksh.exe" to
> "/usr/bin/bash.exe". Poof. You have Korn shell. As far as I can
> tell, Bash can substitute for Korn shell in every area I'm familiar
> with.
>
I knew that once upon a time. Thanks for reminding me. Hey miss bash
maintainer how about a postinstall script to ln -s bash.exe ksh.exe?
Cheers,
Earnie.
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