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From: gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Free binary for ksh93
Date: 11 Sep 1995 18:39:25 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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Keywords: ksh ksh93 att
Has anybody downloaded the ksh93 shell from AT&T?
In case you are not aware of this, as I wasn't until a couple of
days ago, the 1993 version of AT&T Korn shell is available in
binary form for free on a variety of platforms, notably on Linux,
which is how I found out, by reading one of the Linux newsgroups.
The URL is:
http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/book/reuse/
Anyway, I downloaded the ksh93.bsd.i386.Z package, only to find
out after installation that it wasn't meant exactly for FreeBSD.
The _file_ command on the executable says something like 386BSD
demand paged executable, first page unmapped. When I tried it,
it dumped core immediately.
The Linux version worked fine (on Linux, that is, not FreeBSD!).
I have a two questions:
1) Is it possible to run 386BSD executables on FreeBSD?
2) Do you think that if enough people wrote to them, AT&T might
be persuaded to provide a FreeBSD binary?
I would be interested to hear any thoughts you have on these
questions.
--
George Ioannou
gi101@cam.ac.uk