that's what I was talking about. thanks Tom.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:39 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > I'm a little ignorant here but very curious. What is the "korn
> > shell"?
>
> http://www.kornshell.com/
> <excerpt>
> "The KornShell language was designed and developed by David G. Korn at
> AT&T Bell Laboratories. It is an interactive command language that
> provides access to the UNIX system and to many other systems, on the
> many different computers and workstations on which it is implemented.
> The KornShell language is also a complete, powerful, high-level
> programming language for writing applications, often more easily and
> quickly than with other high-level languages. This makes it especially
> suitable for prototyping. There are two other widely used shells, the
> Bourne shell developed by Steven Bourne at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and
> the C shell developed by Bill Joy at the University of California. ksh
> has the best features of both, plus many new features of its own. Thus
> ksh can do much to enhance your productivity and the quality of your
> work, both in interacting with the system, and in programming. ksh
> programs are easier to write, and are more concise and readable than
> programs written in a lower level language such as C. .........< >"
>
> bash (Bourne Again SHell) is still the standard tho ;>
>
