Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:7673 comp.unix.questions:24504 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!bmc.uu.se!kuling!fredriks From: fredriks@kuling.UUCP (Fredrik Stax{ng) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: KSH recommendations? Message-ID: <1610@kuling.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 90 18:58:48 GMT References: <1990Aug08.113542.13266@iti.uucp> Reply-To: fredriks@kuling.UUCP (Fredrik Stax{ng) Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 24 In article <1990Aug08.113542.13266@iti.uucp> todd@iti.UUCP (maroC ddoT) writes: >In article larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes: >>I'd like to purchase a copy of the korn shell for ISC's Unix 2.2. >If you can't find a cheap korn shell, you may want to consider looking into >GNU's BASH (Bourne Again SHell). It has a lot of nice features that make the >korn shell worth while (including emacs & vi style command history editing). >Best of all.... it's free. And it works on 2.2. I got it up about a week ago. >Since ISC just added job control (to 2.2) you may want to keep in mind that >any korn shell compiled for an earlier ISC probally will not support any >job control. I have not tried to get job control to work yet. There is a bug in 2.2 that bit me. POSIX-compliant mode survives exec, so I had to put in a call to _setostype(0) before the exec. Also wait() in nojobs.c needed to be changed to waitpid(). Compile with -Xp. -- Fredrik Stax{ng | Unix is the last operating system. Any CS Student@Uppsala University | new will be strictly in the Unix tradition. fredriks@kuling.docs.uu.se | (+46 18) 46 32 07 |