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From: sverre@lars.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen)
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Subject: Re: ksh
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Date: 14 Jun 91 16:06:38 GMT
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>So, what *is* the story on ksh at 1.5h?  Anyone have it working, and care to
>share a source tree?  I, as Karl, am not overly excited about joining the 
>"to estdio or not" crowd, etc... 

I took a look at ksh when it was first suggested, realized I had to get
estdio, and dropped it when I ran into problems trying to get estdio up.
Not being very satisfied with sh, however, I got hold of bash and got
it running with the help of Jyrki's patches.

I have since upgraded to 1.5h under which estdio compiles without
much problem (I have already posted a set of patches to the list).
Being happy with bash, however, I have not bothered to look at ksh
again.

I am running vanilla 1.5h.  I use gcc 1.39 with Bruce's linker
and assembler (I am tempted to try gas and gld because it appears that
would make g++ easier to port).  I use estdio because it is a little
faster that the standard stdio library and because my new floating
point routines are a little more accurate than the ones in libflt.
Finally I found that gnu make is a must (and remarkably easy to port)
for getting the makefiles supplied with the gnu tools to work.

If there is interest I can post my patches to these programs.  Most
are based on Jyrki's patches but with small tweaks to make them
work on my "vanilla" system.

Sverre

-- 
Sverre Froyen
sverre@seri.gov, sunpeaks!seri!sverre

PS.  Is I have mentioned before, my version of bash 1.08 has a problem
with loosing stdout when the output of a loop is redirected.  If anyone
wants to help me resolve this, send me a note, and I will mail my current
set of patches.