From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 31 07:46:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09582 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09576 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:46:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07696; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:44:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:44:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Dom Mitchell cc: Mike Nguyen , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Feldman Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Dom Mitchell wrote: > Mike Nguyen writes: > > First thing I do when I install a new FreeBSD box is install the BSDi ksh > > binaries from the AT&T software reuse website as /bin/ksh. A real ksh93, no > > less. I haven't had the guts to replace /bin/sh with it yet (though the man > > page does have a toggle to display either as sh(1) or ksh(1)). > > I wouldn't replace /bin/sh with ksh93... It is a *lot* bigger. It's > practically a whole new shell, compared to ksh88. That was never even an option, since ksh93 isn't public code. It was all revolving around the pdksh code base (take a look at ports/shells/pdksh). Or maybe your comments meant that? > > -Dom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message