Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-20 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:32:38PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Frank, Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Jurjen Middendorp wrote: If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give. I've never used ksh93 so I really can't say. There is a NOTES

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-17 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 19:38 +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Frank, Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-16 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better editing

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Tom McLaughlin wrote: Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of magnitude smaller than pdksh here: % [EMAIL

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-16 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:26 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Tom McLaughlin wrote: Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-16 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:34:50PM -0500, Tom McLaughlin wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:26 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Tom McLaughlin wrote: Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts (like the

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-15 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:13:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better

Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-15 13:54, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin$ ls -ld mksh bash ksh % -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 684699 Dec 9 19:51 bash % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 2390645 Aug 31 17:07 ksh % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 236202 Dec 9 18:34 mksh Wow.

pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.]

2007-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically linked, not full of bugs and better editing features. Plus it's not GPL. Hi Frank, Now that you mention