From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 06:14:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21386 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.disney.com (mail.disney.com [204.128.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21380 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from pain.corp.disney.com (root@pain.corp.disney.com [153.7.231.100]) by mail.disney.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA05478 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from louie.fa.disney.com by pain.corp.disney.com with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:14:31 -0800 Received: from snowhite.faf.fa.disney.com (snowhite.faf.fa.disney.com [153.7.115.1]) by louie.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id GAA24088; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from amigo.faf.fa.disney.com (amigo.faf.fa.disney.com [153.7.115.230]) by snowhite.faf.fa.disney.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05858; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:14:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida To: Thomas Stephens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ksh93? Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:12:26 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <199902160351.DAA20042@stephens.ml.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99021609142800.16420@amigo.faf.fa.disney.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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