Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 22:42:12 -0700 From: Tony Jones <tony@rtd.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ksh [was: Re: Shells shells shells?] Message-ID: <199609210542.WAA00588@zebedee.local> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:03:20 EST."
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> > The one disadvantage is size: <snip> > > 335872 20480 7236 363588 58c44 /usr/local/bin/bash [John added] > both bash and ksh. There is a real ksh available for free from > Lucent (the old Bell-labs/hardware part of AT&T), that was specifically > compiled for BSDI, but works on 2.1.5 and 2.2-current. I think > that ksh is a bit smaller than bash also. Both shells are > good (IMO.) That would be ksh93, which _was_ available from www.att.com as part of the reuse package (along with nmake, vmalloc etc) [the distribution was associated with a book, but I forget who the publisher was] Is it now on a Lucent page ? Post split, Korn works for AT&T Labs Research, not Bell-Labs (Lucent). I couldn't find any reference to reuse or ksh on either the main/research AT&T servers, or on the lucent/bell-labs servers. Anyway the version I have (downloaded ~ Aug 95) is larger than even bash. $ size /usr/local/bin/ksh text data bss dec hex 409600 16384 8724 434708 6a214 Tony
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