Re: cvs on cygnus

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mark Tigges <mtigges@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> We are still having some problems with cvs.
> For those responding to my previous message, thank
> you.  I don't think I am using ash (there isn't one
> in /bin), and the /cygnus.bat file specifically 
> specifies bash, so unless this is ash and improperly
> named, I think I using bash.
> 

I know that Jason scored with his question of a non-Cygwin cvs but I want to
clear this point up for the purposes of the archives.

The /bin/sh distributed with Cygwin is a modified version of ash and comes
distributed in the ash-*.tar.gz file.  Bash isn't used as sh because it is
heavier and costs more in execution speed.  As distributed /bin/sh isn't user
friendly as an interactive shell, it has been stripped of user interface glut
and is meant to be used as the batch shell.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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