Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?

1999-10-29 Thread Simon Norris
. If I mount the drive on Linux properly, would there be any problems running rpm through a samba connection? - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix

RE: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?

1999-10-28 Thread Ken Wilson
I think the ksh shell should be available to you if you installed it. And there is always the bash shell (Bourne Again) which seems to be the defacto standard in Linux. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++

Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?

1999-10-28 Thread Steve Philp
Simon Norris wrote: I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux machine. Which shell should I use to get the best response from Korn shell scripts? I believe pdksh ships with Mandrake. -- Steve Philp

Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?

1999-10-28 Thread Simon Norris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh? Simon Norris wrote: I'd like to refresh my Unix scripting knowledge, but I have no access to pure Unix boxes now, so I need to practise on my own linux

Re: [newbie] What is the closest Linux shell to Unix Ksh?

1999-10-28 Thread Steve Philp
Simon Norris wrote: I don't remember it on the install, what would be the easiest way of adding it as a post-install task? Is it RPM'ed for example? I suppose the obvious thing for me to do would be to simply try and change my shell to pdksh, and see if it works? Simon Norris wrote: