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Article #7161Re: Windowing Korn Shell Will it Die of Obscurity?
From: Number 6
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 05:24
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 05:24
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I don't know if it will or not. I certainly don't have good references for documentation on it. I've certainly fired it off and have been baffled (I mean, I can't do any windowing with it). In order to survive, however, I think it must be licensed like ksh and distributed to everyone. I have ksh on the RS/6000 (AIX) and I'd LOVE to see wksh on it. I've asked IBM, but, well, they're not going to do it anytime soon (at least that's my general impression). One thing nice about AIX, the ksh is the default shell for all users, including root (don't flame about security, and the "ease" with which a history command is executed.) Even in maintenance mode, ksh is the shell. Nice. Maybe one other enhancement....cksh....curses ksh. With full linedrawing support and perhaps a subset of wksh. I once wrote 900 lines of ksh code to support line drawing and it S.L.O.W.! (And C was inappropriate due to lack of a C compiler!) I know fmli is there, and I enjoy it, but it is unavailable on AIX and the RS/6000 (another one of my queries about 1.5 years ago). *********************************************************************** Nathan D. Lane, VP Triicon Systems. Lompoc, CA (805) 7331849 NaN != 6, 6 == 1. I am not a number, I am a free list! I'm a programmer my computers are more valuable than my cars.
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