Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:08:50 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing mksh in base Message-ID: <201901270008.x0R08oGN078598@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> of "Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:30:35 -0800." <79948.1548545435@kaos.jnpr.net>
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In message <79948.1548545435@kaos.jnpr.net>, "Simon J. Gerraty" writes: > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote: > > Why not ksh93 instead? It is the original and authoritative Korn > > shell. EPL i > > Sure but my experience was (back in maybe 2000 or there abouts) it was lame > compared to pdksh ;-) emacs mode as crude, no interactive history > search. It was closed source then. AT&T and Sun had no interest in spending salaried time on a shell but times have now changed and ksh is open source. Check out the ksh93-devel port. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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