The Korn Shell [was: Re: What's Up With That (KSH)?]
Nicholas Wourms
nwourms@yahoo.com
Fri Jun 14 13:54:00 GMT 2002
--- "Gregory W. Bond" <bond@research.att.com> wrote:
> First permit me to correct a common misconception: AT&T Labs Research is
> not Bell Labs. The latter is the R&D arm of Lucent. Lucent was spun off
> from AT&T in 1996/7. When the spin off took place,
> researchers in the original AT&T Bell Labs chose to go to Lucent Bell
> Labs (Lucent got to keep the 'Bell Labs' name) or to the newly formed
> AT&T Labs Research. Dave Korn chose AT&T Labs Research.
Boooo... Damn The DOJ, Judge Green, and The Modified Final Judgement for
splintering AT&T (which inevitably let to the lucent divestiture). Now we
have all these other stupid phone companies providing crappy service :-p.
> I also wanted to corroborate what Joe said about the relationship
> between Cygwin and U/Win and add that Dave's goals in creating U/Win
> included high performance and transparent integration of Win32 and
> Unix programs. In my opinion, Cygwin does not do as well in these two
> areas. On the other hand, Cygwin is superior to U/Win in the number of
> Unix apps that have been ported and are supported.
This is true, however there are a few posix functions which U/WIN has and
cygwin lacks :-(. However the general acceptance of Cygwin in many
projects does give it the edge up. Now if only there was a full fort of
glibc...
> With regards to ksh for Cygwin: a new version of the source and
> pre-compiled binaries have been posted at
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download that should fix a problem I
> reported to Dave and Glenn
> that caused ksh to break on text mounted directories.
>
> It's great to have a real ksh for Cygwin!
I completely agree! Down with the imposters! Long live David Korn!
Cheers,
Nicholas
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