Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!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: <1991Apr22.020951.13435@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 22 Apr 91 02:09:51 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> <1991Apr18.235605.29857@melb.bull.oz.au> Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia. Lines: 29 In <1991Apr18.235605.29857@melb.bull.oz.au> I wrote: >In <91103.005514QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes: >>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. Boy did that get a response! Thanks to all those who expressed an interest in my updates. I will package the lot up into a complete tar file, as well as some patch files and make it available for anon-ftp. I will post here when it is ready (a bug seems to have worked its way back into edit.c...) it might take a few days until I have time to look at it. -- Simon J. Gerraty #include