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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: ksh for Linux & olwm for X (do they exist?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.144104.21938@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:41:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.043659.6215@news.columbia.edu>, jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
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- | Bash ought to be a superset of ksh--is there something in ksh that's
- | missing in bash? Or do you just feel that bash is too bloated?
-
- No, bash is not a superset of ksh, although many features are similar.
- Neither the user interface or the programming interface are identical or
- a subset. I'm constantly trying to use ksh stuff on bash and finding out
- that it isn't there or works a little differently.
-
- That's not a criticism of bash, just a factualy note. Bash is a nice
- enough shell, but it does things in its own way.
-
- If I get the chance after the Olympics are over I may try to compile
- real ksh on linux. As long as I do it on a work machine it's covered by
- the site license, so I can legally do that, although I can't share the
- binary.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-