Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!know!ladcgw.ladc.bull.com!melb.bull.oz.au!sjg From: sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: public domain ksh sources - where ? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.235605.29857@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 18 Apr 91 23:56:05 GMT References: <1991Apr9.004636.18785@a-k.boston.ma.us> <2797@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <22341@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <91103.005514QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia. Lines: 31 In <91103.005514QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes: >In article <22341@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) says: >>Ksh is now being bundled with various systems, for example ULTRIX. >>I would not be surprised to see it in the next release of SunOS as well. >> >>The public domain ksh (originally by Erik Gisin) is a subset of ksh, >>something like a minimalist version. By and large, it works. >The opinions I've heard say that the PD version is more like an >improved sh or a very small subset of ksh. OK if you want a shell >for nothing but not if you want something even close to the 'real >thing' Well I'm using the that PD ksh on some sun's. I use a real ksh on our Bull DPX/2. After adding a few simple features to the PD shell (like editing lines longer than the screen width, and retrieving words from the previous command line). I switch between the DPX/2 and sun all day (side by side on the sun's console) and its hard to tell the difference. Mind you I _only_ write scripts for /bin/sh, so I guess I wouldn't notice some of the missing features in the PD ksh. For interactive work its fine. Now if only I could find who posted the sources I have modified so that my updates can be shared... -- Simon J. Gerraty #include