[Gllug] Shell

[Richard Cottrill]

I don't mean to make this into an HP-UX discussion list, but...

HP does release a lot of 'official' open source tools for HP-UX. bash, vim,
and (most notably) gcc are all available from the HP website. I thought your
problem might be some strange bureaucracy at first; but now I see they may
just be ignorant.

http://dsportal.eservices.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechTypeListingPage_IDX/1,17
04,10312,00.html

If this link doesn't work then go to http://dsportal.eservices.hp.com/ ->
technical resources -> open source development (near the bottom of the
page).

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Harry
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:51 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Shell
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alain Williams" <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
>
>
> >
> > AFIR about 10 years ago POSIX mandated ksh as being present on
> *nix boxen,
>
> This was the reason for my question. I was unsure if all boxes had it or
> not. I went looking at all the shells after having korn on the hp box and
> wanted to use the one I was most likely to encounter in the wild.
>
> > it might even have been the default shell. So you can happily
> use ksh and
> > expect portability of your scripts [[ I do this ]]. Use ksh in
> preference
> to the
> > Bourne shell, it has some nice programming fearures.
> > Force the use of ksh by having as a first line:
> >
> > #!/bin/ksh -u
> >
> > C Shell is vile, often there, but vile.
> >
> > The trouble with bash is that you need to port it to the machines,
> sometimes
> > easier than others. Easier to use ksh.
>
> I asked the Unix guys about installing Vim and Bash and was told
> it was more
> trouble than it was worth as I would probably be the only person
> using them
> and they would have to do quite a lot of work to have them tested and then
> kept up to date as they do not come with a standard install from HP-UX. At
> least I think that is what they where saying.
>
> Harry
>
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