Re: default shell

[Luke Bakken <luke_bakken@yahoo.com>]

And for those who'd like to use the AT&T ksh93 the source is available at
www.kornshell.com

I recently compiled it on a FreeBSD box with one minor (easily fixed)
hitch, and I'd assume OpenBSD wouldn't be a problem either. Just be sure
to follow their 'source package installation' procedure.

If people are interested in compiling it and run into trouble, feel free
to email me.

you can do c-style for loops among other 'new' ksh features as opposed to
the ksh88 version.

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:55:27AM +0100, Ragnar Beer scribed:
> 
> Heya,
>  
> > Coming from Linux one of the first things I did was to install bash 
> > and make it my default shell. As far as I remember the main reason 
> > was because sh would not auto-complete by pressing tab. Now I 
> > suddenly got the enlightenment that maybe the choice in favor of sh 
> > as the default shell in OpenBSD was made for a reason and maybe I 
> > should say goodbye to bash.
> 
> I was always a bash user until about 1 year ago, now I use ksh with the
> following additions to my .profile to make it basically identical to
> bash's interface:
> 
> 
> # Set up the command line env
> set -o emacs
> bind '^I^I'=complete-list
> HOSTNAME=`hostname`
> export HOSTNAME
> export PS1='$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD $ '
> 
> 99% of people won't notice the difference.
> 
>  -- joe.
>  
>