
  * What is akanga?

    akanga is a rc derived shell interpreter.  It was developed from the
    release rc-1.5betadev.  akanga is also preconfigured for editline
    support and comes with the sorces for it.


  * What is the difference between rc and akanga?

    akanga has additional builtin support for

      - Temporary files
      - File locking
      - Reading standard input
      - Reading configuration files
      - Arithmetic expression evaluation

    These things target for better shell programming support.  See akanga(1)
    and akangaexpr(1) for further information.


  * How do I compile it?

    You can try a ``make'' in the main directory.  This will produce
    a good number of compilation messages.  Ignore them if you don't
    get errors.  If it works you'll get the stripped akanga binary in
    the bin directory.


  * Installing akanga and samples.

    The makefile contains an ``install'' target that copies akanga
    to /bin the sample scripts to /usr/local/bin and all available
    manpages to /usr/local/man/man1.  You can change the locations
    in ``copyfiles'' script.
    This requires a compiled akanga binary in the bin directory.


  * The which script doesn't work.  What's wrong?

    Most probably which doesn't work (or better the command line
    option do not work) because which is usually a bash shell alias.
    You have to remove it's definition from /etc/profile.


  * How do I use it?

    The samples directory contains some example script for akanga.

