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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:20:08 -0500
From:      Brian Minder <bmm@minder.net>
To:        Joe.Warner@smed.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports/shells/ksh93
Message-ID:  <20011120132008.A7025@waste.minder.net>
In-Reply-To: <OF0F962A46.788A317C-ON87256B0A.00529431@smed.com>; from Joe.Warner@smed.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:31:27AM -0700
References:  <OF0F962A46.788A317C-ON87256B0A.00529431@smed.com>

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Another ksh implementation is pdksh. From /usr/ports/shells/pdksh/pkg-descr:

--
PDKSH is the Public Domain Korn Shell. Its command language is a
superset of the sh(1) shell language.

WWW: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
--

Thanks,

-Brian

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bmm@minder.net                                                1024/8C7C4DE9

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:31:27AM -0700, Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote:
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE in a
> production environment and need to install
> an application for our intranet
> but it's install script is written for #!/bin/ksh
> 
> After checking /etc/shells and noticing that I
> didn't have ksh installed, I tried to install it via
> /usr/ports/shells/ksh93 but it errored out at the
> end saying I needed to download the port
> manually and place it in /usr/ports/distfiles
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/shells/ksh93
> references INIT.2001-07-04.0000.tgz and
> ast-ksh.2001-07-04.0000.tgz but when I click
> on those links it comes back saying "The page
> cannot be found".  Additionally, when I search
> for these files at http://www.research.att.com/
> I can't find them.
> 
> Obviously, this port is outdated.  Does anyone know
> which snapshot from www.research.att.com will work
> and how I should modify the Makefile so that it installs
> properly (especially during the patch phase) ?

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