Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:16:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's easier to port a shell than a shell script. -- Larry Wall Message-ID: <199808291716.NAA06327@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980829021810.602A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> from "Jason C. Wells" at Aug 29, 98 02:18:58 am
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> > On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > >This assertion and counter assertion went back and forth for a bit, when > >another fellow member of the audience announced to the MPM that the > >questioner was, in fact David Korn of AT&T (now Lucent) Bell Labs. (David > >Korn is the author of the Korn shell) Actually, he's David Korn of AT&T Labs now. He stayed with AT&T at the split up. > > This is RICH!!! > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ One of the programmers at my department keeps complaining about the lack of Korn Shell compliance in the MKS shell. He's got to keep writing around the stuff they don't implement. Their KSH is more KSH-88 than KSH-93 (which is the current standard). AT&T's got a KSH-93e off their web pages from research which works on FreeBSD (it was a BSDI binary). Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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