As far as I know, the K shell (or Korn Shell), is a commercial shell, and it
is not distributed as a part of Mandrake Linux, at least not that I am aware
of. There are a number of shells that have functionality fairly close to
that of the Korn Shell, however.
In fact, the default Mandrake Linux shell, bash, is highly compatible with
the Korn Shell. There are a few differences, but they are not great,
particularly if you use the most recent version of Bash, 2.05.
O'Reilly and Associates has two similar books, "Learning the Bash Shell"
and "Learning the Korn Shell". Though now dated by a few years, each one
describes the features of each shell and documents the differences.
Other shells that are similar to the Korn Shell are pdksh (Public Domain
Korn Shell) and zsh. I've not used either of them enough to let you know
how similar or different they are, but I have used Korn and Bash shells
enough to know that for the majority of tasks, they are quite similar, and
for the differences, small changes can be made to make both behave in an
identical manner. Given the choice, I'd use Bash.
The Mas
--- guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a problem, I promised to help out and test a program in java from IBM.
>
> For some test reason, this is a limited installation to be, they require me
> to run the installation from a k-shell.
>
> I only have Cooker installations for the moment to test it in, so have anyone
>
> tested it?
>
> Assume that I create a user, how do a make him use k-shell, so that I can su
> in there and test it out?
>
> TIA
> guran
> --
> Mandrake Linux 8.1 beta Cooker kernel-2.4.8-19 vers:1.565
>
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