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Re: pdksh package proposal
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:54:51AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >If knowone else has jumped on the wagon for this I'd like to maintain
pdksh.
> >I have built pdksh, and although not OOTB*, it runs perfectly. I have
> >packaged it up here
> >
> >http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14-1.tar.bz2
>
>http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14-1-src.tar.b
z
> >2
> >http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/setup.hint
> >
> >with this setup.hint
> >
> >category: Shells
> >requires: cygwin
> >sdesc: "A public domain ksh"
> >ldesc: "PD-ksh is a clone of the AT&T Korn shell. At the moment,
> >it has most of the ksh88 features, not much of the ksh93
> >features, and a number of it's own features."
> >
> >*I had to change the name of `struct option' in sh.h to option_l with a
> >macro option to option_l . This was due to getopt.h , included by
unistd.h
> >having the same struct name.
>
> I haven't checked the packaging but this has my vote (obviously?).
Lucky for me, I've just noticed I left out the profile.ksh and the
postinstall script ;-)
> Thanks for doing this, Elfyn.
>
> cgf
No problem...I was waiting to see if the AT&T ksh would crop up so jumped at
the chance when I saw yours and Igor's message :-)
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn at exposure dot org dot uk
www.exposure.org.uk