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- From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: anyone wants pdksh?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.003816.5440@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:38:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov21.003816.5440
- References: <1992Nov19.000134.4950@serval.net.wsu.edu> <9211191752.35@rmkhome.UUCP>
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- In article <9211191752.35@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov19.000134.4950@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
- |> >I have made pdksh 4.7 for sun. If anyone wants it, I can try to
- |> >make it for LInux.
- |>
- |> Do be aware that PD ksh is less sh compatible than bash. To see test results,
- |> run the test suite for GNU egrep with PD ksh as your shell. The suite has
- |> 119 tests. It will fail 60 tests with PD ksh and passes all with bash.
- |>
- |> --
- |>
- |> Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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- I want to use it as sh on my bootable root disk. It is only about 90K. I
- haven't had any problems so far. I hope someone could run the test under
- Linux.
-
- H.J.
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