[ale] Korn Shell on RH9

[Geoffrey]

Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> 
>>All,
>>
>>We have a unix admin who wants ksh on rh9.  His attempt to install has lead to having to install openpkg first.
>>
>>rpmbuild --rebuild ./openpkg-2.0.2-2.0.2.src.rpm
>>
>>
>>warning: group rse does not exist - using root
>>error: line 64: Unknown tag: Class:        CORE
>>
>>We get some warnings and then a final error.  Anyone have experience here?  The ultimate destination is to install K shell on Redhat 9.
> 
> 
> Why not use pdksh, which comes with Red Hat and most other Linux distros?  
> It's close enough to written-by-David-Korn ksh that only an insane person
> would know ksh well enough to spot the differences ;-)

I guess I'm insane. :)  I started using Korn ksh around 1989 and 
continued until I started using Linux and found pdksh.  Although I have 
found some differences, in the time that I've been using Linux/pdksh 
(circa 1995) I would say that, for me, it's a reasonable replacement.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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