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Re: pdksh package proposal
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at gmx dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:53:56 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: pdksh package proposal
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:27:32PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > 4. I see that the binary package includes /usr/bin/ksh.exe. It may be
> > better to renamed this to /usr/bin/pdksh.exe, just in case someone
> > packages AT&T's ksh for Cygwin.
>
> Hmm, I disagree. pdksh should be used as a ksh substitute and I'd
> expect to run my scripts w/o having to change the shebang line to be
> `#!/bin/pdksh' for all my ksh scripts.
>
> However, this is just *my* opinion.
I agree with you. Maybe a symlink is an option ?
I've also looked at how OpenBSD handles this, since they have pdksh
installed as ksh by default. If the ast-ksh port is used, the binary is
installed as ksh93. But this doesn't seem to solve the problem you
describe.