[NTLUG:Discuss] Korn Shell

[cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:47:23 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>  said:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > 
> ...
> > Doesn't it include Korn Shell?  I thought that /bin/ksh had gotten pretty
> > ubiquitous by now, and it's a fair bit more functional than Original
> > Bourne Shell.
> 
> SunOS 4.x (though old...just has Bourne and Csh)

If it's ubiquitous on anything for which service contracts are still
available, that's good enough for me.  :-)

> > Anything where I'm trying to keep it portable, I use ksh, as it's
> > available on all the systems I've used lately, and tracks the POSIX
> > shell standard.
> > 
> > <aside> I noticed this week that Perl was installed on a "bog
> > standard" Solaris box; looks like it's nearly getting ubiquitous
> > too... </aside>
> 
> Yep...it's available on....dare I say it.... NT.
> Even Bourne (and therefore Korn too) shell isn't on NT
> without some assistance (e.g. GNU Win32, MKS Toolkit, others).

Yes, but I seem to recall David Korn indicating that the one used on NT
isn't very good.  [I also seem to recall this implementation being the
MKS one, which is disappointing, because I knew some of the MKS folks,
and would regard them as being _pretty good_ in implementing Unix
functionality on all sorts of platforms...]
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