Re: AT&T Korn Shell

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew Porter
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:19 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote: Does the Debian ksh93 package include libast and libshell? No - dpkg -L ksh /. /bin /bin/ksh93 /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/shcomp /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/ksh93.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/shcomp.1.gz

Re: C compiler

2005-09-13 Thread Andrew Porter
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 08:26 -0400, Shawn (Shu Xiang) Yu wrote: Hello, I am new here. I just installed Debian on my system. When I try to compile a c code with gcc, I got error says "undefined reference to 'sin'". This is the same code run on Windows. Anyone know how to fix it. From "man

Re: an idea for patch of the /etc/init.d/rc script

2005-09-06 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 17:17 +0300, Delian Delchev wrote: > Some of the startup scripts does not depend on each other. For example – > starting of mysql and postgresql does not depend. So why we don't do it > in parallel? > > If we place the same number id's for S[0-9][0-9]* links for each scripts

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:41 +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > at least, i think zsh is better because it's almost 200k thinner: > > % ls -sh =zsh4 =bash > 616K /bin/bash 456K /bin/zsh4 I acutally use ksh for all my shell scripts (bash hasn't quite made it yet IMHO) and that beats both - 636K /bin/

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew Porter
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:35 +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > that is a point which surprise me : i understand the dash for a posix > and lightweight attitude but why use bash as "modern shell" ? why not > perl or zsh (which are both more powerfull) ? bash is actually pretty good if you know how t

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:44 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: I could debate with you whether > /usr/sbin/mysqld --print-defaults \ > | tr " " "\n" \ > | grep -- "--$1" \ > | tail -n 1 \ > | cut -d= -f2 is harder to read than >

Re: AT&T Korn Shell

2005-07-13 Thread Andrew Porter
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:44 +0100, Andrew Porter wrote: > AT&T have released the source to ksh93 under the CPL (Common Public > Licence) > > Are there any plans to create a debian package ? Bah - just found a package in unstable for it already :) /me tips hat to Oliver Kiddle

AT&T Korn Shell

2005-07-13 Thread Andrew Porter
AT&T have released the source to ksh93 under the CPL (Common Public Licence) Are there any plans to create a debian package ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part