From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 20:34:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094C537B408 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-007dcwashP103.dialsprint.net [63.178.91.63]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02510; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by earthlink.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3651950B98; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:34:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:34:46 -0400 From: parv To: Radhika Sambamurti Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Ksh93 from ksh.com Message-ID: <20010904233446.A8618@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Radhika Sambamurti , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010904145113.76583.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010904145113.76583.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com>; from radhika_narendran@yahoo.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:51:13AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this was, on the fateful occasion around Sep 04 10:51 -0400, sent by Radhika Sambamurti > > Hello, > Has anyone tried installing the korn shell on your machine > from the AT&T site? > I followed instructions and continued on to use the > "package"command, only to get an error message that says no > archive file? > > Any help on how to start would be useful. > i tried twice w/ 20010101 version a few months ago. after 2-3 false starts, i managed to compile ksh (and everything else in the ast-open package). i wasn't able to compile/install _only_ ksh though. i don't know what/who is ksh.com, but relevant/correct (re)sources are... http://www.kornshell.com/ http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ ...the instructions are rather convoluted, did you try these... http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/faq.html http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/faq.build.html http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/gen/SOURCE.html ...and pay attention to the note about moving *tgz file(s)? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message