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Re: Link "bash" to "ksh" to be more "portable"?


On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:23:59AM +0200, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
>> Is it reasonable to link "bash.exe" to "ksh.exe" in the Cygwin
>> distribution?  Is there any feature in Korn shell that is NOT in Bash,
>> or any other reason why this might be a bad thing to do?
>
>IIRC, zsh has a mode to emulate ksh, and will do so automatically if it
>starts as "ksh"-named process.  There have been messages about porting
>zsh to cygwin on this list, so take a look around to see if you can find
>the port.  Then create a symlink ksh to zsh or just copy the program to
>ksh.  Haven't tried that though.

Why not just use pdksh?  I'd have more confidence that something with "ksh"
in its name would emulate ksh more precisely.

I don't know if anyone has ported it, but I wouldn't be surprised.

cgf

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