caw@cditi.UUCP (Craig Westveer) (07/01/89)
Does anyone out there know if the Korn Shell is available for the 4D series machines? C. Westveer
rosalia@noether.UUCP (Mark Galassi) (07/04/89)
In article <391@cditi.UUCP> caw@cditi.UUCP (Craig Westveer) writes: >Does anyone out there know if the Korn Shell is available for the 4D >series machines? I have ported bash (that is, the Born Again SHell, the GNU project shell). The port is not really a serious one, in that I have not checked many things out. It will work fine if you invoke "bash" from the existing shell or C shell, but I have not yet got it to work as a default shell. Basically, I did the minimum to get it to compile and recognize the correct set of signals from <signal.h>. Note also that bash is right now a beta release. If anyone wants, I can send them the diffs for bash to run on the personal IRIS, and any other IRIS. I should point out that bash has the Korn shell history substitution together with the C shell '!' mechanism, and thus in my opinion leaves no need for the Korn shell. More over it is FREE software from the Free Software Foundation, so you don't have silly licensing stuff and you don't pay thousands of dollars for it. -- {These opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-)} Mark Galassi rosalia@mozart.UUCP rosalia@sunysbnp.BITNET rosalia@noether.UUCP rosalia@noether.sunysb.edu
jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) (10/04/90)
I am in the market for a new workstation and I'm looking at the SGI line...
I've hacked away on a few systems and they seem very nice, but I have three
little questions:
1. Is it possible to use and access AppleTalk LaserWriters (which are
PostScript devices) with SGI? If so, what hardware and software is
required?
2. None of the systems I were on had the Korn shell (ksh)... is it
available?
3. Finally, is there a FORTRAN-compiler available that supports VAX/
VMS FORTRAN extensions?
E-mail responses are just dandy (128.183.44.1)
Thanks in advance!
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the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) (04/10/91)
Just a short plea to the folks at SGI: Please consider including ksh as one of the standard shells. I know the AT&T license may cost a few bucks, but it's money well spent. -- Vincent Fox (That's Mr. Bucko to you)|"The bear and Carl lived together in the Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA |cave for several years until, one day, the SR-71: gt1111a@prism.gatech.edu |true savagery of Nature being unleashed, Pony Express:...!gatech!prism!gt1111a|Carl killed and ate him." -Gary Larson
kevin@IGOR.TAMRI.COM (Kevin Dalley) (04/11/91)
> Just a short plea to the folks at SGI: > Please consider including ksh as one of the standard shells. > I know the AT&T license may cost a few bucks, but it's money well spent. You should try bash, the Bourne Again SHell. cwru has a copy of their version available by anonymous ftp from slc2.INS.CWRU.Edu in /pub/bash/bash-1.07.cwru.tar.Z, with other bash information information available. cwru's version compiles nicely on the IRIX. An extraction from the man page: Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash incorporates useful features of the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh) as well. It has most of the ksh features that I liked, including the ability to write large shell programs that run *really* slow. Of course, it's also free. Try it. Kevin Dalley kevin@tamri.com