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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which Shell? Date: 1 Dec 1996 08:33:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <57rfso$9p6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961130104832.14837A-100000@darkstar> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote: > ... With regard to posix compliance > and compatibility with commercial unix systems (sun, hp, sgi), which shell > would be the most appropriate to standardize on? Posix made what i call an mistake, by sanctioning any and all features of the Korn shell, however weird they might have been. The more obscure features have been simply left ``implementation-defined'', the better ones are standardized. The public-domain Korn shell (pdksh, also available in the ports) is probably what comes closest to the genuine Korn shell, except that you should not get used to use your arrow keys for line-editing, since Mr. Korn's creation cannot do this. :-] I've also heard rumours about the availability of the true Korn shell for BSD, but i don't know much more about this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)