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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> On a BL3 laptop 486 I just installed bash and tcsh 
> packages from SW4.0 for use in a 'unix shell scripting' 
> class.  I could not find Korn shell 

zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the 
standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh)

> for SW4.0.  

/slakware/ap1/zsh.tgz

> I also downloaded bash binary compiled with dietlibc - 
> would this work better than the five-year-old bash 
> from SW4.0?

The dietlibc bash is version 2.05
Slackware 4.0 has 1.14 and 2.03

I prefer 1.14

> In order to practice writing scripts in the different 
> shells, is it sufficient just to have bash and tcsh 
> on there

Yes.

> or must I set up a couple of user accounts, one for 
> each shell?  

No.

> Instead of setting up user accounts, could I convert 
> the loop bl3 to bash and the hd bl3 to tcsh?  

Yes.  Or you could run bash on tty1, tcsh on tty2, and
zsh on tty3.

> If so, how?

Edit /etc/inittab and replace /bin/sh (the current shell).

Cheers,
Steven

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