Re: default shell

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Luke Bakken <luke_bakken@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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,

I really need to take a look at this again.  Earlier this year, it
was more than a little hitch.

> and I'd assume OpenBSD wouldn't be a problem either.

Yeah, if you get it going for one BSD adapting it to another one
should be simple.  Creating a port for ksh93 is something I have
on my lists of "things I eventually ought to do".

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

FWIW, this and various other ksh93 features has made its way into
bash.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de