From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: ksh for Linux & olwm for X (do they exist?) Date: 28 Jul 1992 19:47:10 GMT
In article <1992Jul28.144104.21938@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul28.043659.6215@news.columbia.edu>, jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
|>
|> | 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.
|> --
Have you tried zsh?
-- H.J. Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.