On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:39 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn
> shell"?
http://www.kornshell.com/
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"The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at
AT&T Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive command language that
provides access to the UNIX system and to many other systems, on the
many different computers and workstations on which it is implemented.
The KornShell language is also a complete, powerful, high-level
programming language for writing applications, often more easily and
quickly than with other high-level languages. This makes it especially
suitable for prototyping. There are two other widely used shells, the
Bourne shell developed by Steven Bourne at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and
the C shell developed by Bill Joy at the University of California. ksh
has the best features of both, plus many new features of its own. Thus
ksh can do much to enhance your productivity and the quality of your
work, both in interacting with the system, and in programming. ksh
programs are easier to write, and are more concise and readable than
programs written in a lower level language such as C. .........< >"
bash (Bourne Again SHell) is still the standard tho ;>
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
