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Re: mksh 49-1 no longer handles Windows line endings
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:21:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: mksh 49-1 no longer handles Windows line endings
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On Dec 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Ryan Dortmans <ryandort.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> The latest version of mksh no longer handles Windows line endings
[snip]
> <mksh491_fix1.patch><mksh491_fix2.patch>—
mksh is currently up for adoption:
http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Packages-up-for-adoption-td111353.html
I briefly considered adopting it, mainly for historical purposes.[1] But, you seem to have a much stronger itch here. You should adopt it.
Actually, I think whoever adopts mksh should replace it with the real Korn shell. The whole pdksh -> mksh code path reflects the historical unavailability of the true ksh source code, but that changed in 2000.[2]
[1] It’s sometimes useful to be able to compare ksh88/93 behavior to Bash and Zsh.
[2] http://kornshell.com/
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