Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:12:26 -0500 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Thomas Stephens <tas@stephens.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ksh93? Message-ID: <99021609142800.16420@amigo.faf.fa.disney.com> References: <199902160351.DAA20042@stephens.ml.org>
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I have been using the BSDI version for a long time now (2 - 3 years) and I have not had any problems with it. I would be interested in a native FreeBSD version and how much faster it would run. pirzyk@amigo:~ 1>file /bin/ksh /bin/ksh: BSD/OS i386 compact demand paged executable not stripped - Jim On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Thomas Stephens wrote: >If anyone else interested in ksh, it has been officially ported to Linux, >and a BSD/OS 4.0 port is in the works. The fact that binaries for >supported platforms (including Linux) are available at no charge from >AT&T (www.kornshell.com) suggests sufficient demand might persuade them >port it to FreeBSD. > >Regarding the other options, I am aware of pdksh and bash, but both are >somewhat non-standard (especially bash). There is also CDE (which >includes ksh93), but I'm not aware of any FreeBSD versions (it also >seems a bit excessive to buy the entire CDE just for ksh). > >At any rate, I am wondering if anyone knows of a port of ksh93 to >FreeBSD (as part of CDE or otherwise), and would also be interested in >knowing the level of demand there is among FreeBSD users for this shell. >Am I unique in wanting it? > >Regards >Thomas Stephens >tas@stephens.org > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.4 1999/02/03 17:05:58 pirzyk Exp $ Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------------------------------- __o System Administrator, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida _'\<,_ at Disney MGM Studios (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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