[TUHS] Style command source available?

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Aug 21 09:15:11 AEST 2020


Unfortunately Ghostscript can't convert that .ps file to a PDF.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:42 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu> wrote:

> On 8/20/20 12:08 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co
> > <mailto:usotsuki at buric.co>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Funny you mention ksh since I've been trying to kitbash ksh93 into
> being
> >     able to compile with make instead of the funky build system it
> currently
> >     uses, without a lot of luck.
> >
> >
> > IIRC, Korn used make when developing ksh, but then shipped it with a
> > /bin/sh script because it was more portable than make was in those days
> > (and still is; there are tools that warn you to use gmake on BSD).  After
> > all, a build process (unless it is interrupted) just needs to build, it
> > doesn't need to keep track of what has already been built.
>
> He might have started with make for ksh83 and 86, but switched to Fowler's
> nmake and then shipped that /bin/sh script in ksh88 for people (everyone,
> basically) who didn't have nmake.
>
> > That said, I have no idea what the state of the build process is now.
>
> Changing that was one of the controversial modifications made to ksh93 in
> ksh-2020. It's pretty complex.
>
> Here's a paper that describes part of it:
>
>
> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/vhll/full_papers/fowler.feature.ps
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>
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