Subject: ksh [was: Re: miniroot for NetBSD/i386?]
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/11/2005 21:49:31
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Igor Sobrado wrote:
> I am really happy with ksh(1) in NetBSD. I think that sh(1), ksh(1)
> and csh(1) are all required shells. I have a friend in the Department
> of Mathematics that uses tcsh too. IMHO, ksh(1) is a shell that
> provides the nice features of bash(1) without its complex or incompatible
> features. It is powerful and, at same time, simple.
The unfortunate thing is that NetBSD's ksh is pdksh which has a number of
features that are not available in other ksh implementations - if it was
the same everywhere, I'd immetiately switch to it.
- Hubert