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Re: KSH is pdksh


"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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