aspgpas@cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) (07/07/90)
Does anyone out there have the Korn Shell running (any version, commercial or other) on an IRIS 4D? I've been wandering around the internet looking for one without much success. AT&T only handles 3B2 stuff. Our users really liked it when we had on another (now late and lamented) machine. Any help appreciated -- Peter Silva psilva@cid.aes.doe.ca (514) 421-4692
robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu (Robert Viduya) (07/07/90)
>aspgpas@cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) (aspgpas@cid.aes.doe.CA, <1990Jul6.210819.11364@cid.aes.doe.CA>): > Does anyone out there have the Korn Shell running (any version, > commercial or other) on an IRIS 4D? I've been wandering around the > internet looking for one without much success. AT&T only handles 3B2 > stuff. We have ksh88b running on all our 4D's. The OS is 3.2. We licensed it from AT&T and haven't had much problem getting it running on all our machines here, the only exception being Apple's A/UX which took a bit of work. On the SGI's, the only gotcha I remember experiencing when I built ksh was that it needed to be compiled to run in raw mode only; otherwise it had a disconcerting habit of logging the user off whenever he tried to edit the command line. There may have been a couple of other problems with include files, but they were trivial enough for me not to remember them any more. robert -- Robert Viduya robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu Office of Computing Services Georgia Institute of Technology (404) 894-6296 Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0275
russell@CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ (07/09/90)
Yes! SGI have a version of ksh but you need an AT&T license before they will give it to you. By the way I understand that ksh comes as part of V.4. I am confused about the license cost. We were quoted $us 3000 this seems very steep and we did not buy. I now think that that must have been a source license when all we want is a binary license. We have had trouble getting information out of AT&T, we have to deal through Japan sigh... If you find anything different on the cost please let me know. Russell.