[comp.unix.i386] Wanted: ksh for 386/ix

joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico) (08/23/90)

  Where can I find (or buy) a ksh that will run under ISC 386/ix 2.0.2?

carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/23/90)

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  Where can I find (or buy) a ksh that will run under ISC 386/ix 2.0.2?
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The standard AT&T ksh-88 (d) compiles and runs under ISC 2.0.2. You can
probably get a copy from AT&T.

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (08/23/90)

In article <70400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
| /* Written  2:14 pm  Aug 22, 1990 by joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
|   Where can I find (or buy) a ksh that will run under ISC 386/ix 2.0.2?
| The standard AT&T ksh-88 (d) compiles and runs under ISC 2.0.2. You can
| probably get a copy from AT&T.

   You can, for $2000. That may be a bit steep for some people, and
perhaps a binary would suffice. I think someone was selling such for
about $200 in _UNIX World_.

  The AT&T versions doesn't work well on SCO UNIX. As a matter of fact
the only way it works at all is to boot /bin/sh and then run (not exec)
ksh. "This will be fixed in a future version which will include ksh."
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shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (08/28/90)

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>  The AT&T versions doesn't work well on SCO UNIX. As a matter of fact
>the only way it works at all is to boot /bin/sh and then run (not exec)
>ksh. "This will be fixed in a future version which will include ksh."

	I can't speak about ksh-88, since I'm using ksh-i compiled under
ISC 2.0.2 (the SCO Xenix/386 compiler couldn't handle it.*) It's the default
shell for a number of non-root users. I had a lot of problem booting with
C-shell as root's shell, somewhat better results with Korn Shell. Reinstalled
with Bourne as root's shell.

	I suspect SCO's "fix" involves the underlying system (kernel, boot
routines, etc.) and not (just) ksh itself.

* Don't yet have SCO's UNIX SDS.