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Re: pdksh package proposal


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:53:56PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 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 ?

Sure, pdksh.exe plus a /usr/bin/ksh link would be nice (as long
as people don't complain about the symlink slowing down their
shell startup ;-))

Corinna

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