[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Thu Feb 9 11:56:36 EST 2012


Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> And the reason I used ksh on Linux until I realized I could simply do
> the "set -o vi" in bash as well.   Some folks don't install ksh on
> Linux.
> 
> Funny thing is we've got some DBAs that are convinced ksh works
> better for Oracle than bash even though we've proven their issues are
> environment setup and not shell.   (Some of this went back to when we
> had to use pdksh because real ksh wasn't available in RHEL4 and
> before.)

Ah, but I've been using ksh since my days at AT&T  (early 80's) when it 
was an internal shell, unavailable to the rest of the world.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson


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