On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:05:36PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > dash primarily is meant to run non-interactively, and to be used as a > > standard /bin/sh interpreter for shell scripts. I think I'll add the > > menu file to the dash package nevertheless (today's ash package only > > provides a symlink /bin/ash -> dash), so it should be fine if you remove > > /usr/share/menu/default/ash from the menu package. > > Ah, thanks. I though dash was not interactive but ash was (and that was > the point of having both). In fact I though ash was the current *BSD > version and dash was the Debian version. So why did Herbert renamed ash > to dash ?
I'm not sure, but I think to point out that's a code fork. Changing the name in such a case is a good thing in my opinion, to avoid confusion. dash can be used interactively of course, but doesn't include convenient features like readline and history support, currently. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
