Re: Solaris ksh / was: Re: bash: WHY???

From: Roland Mainz (roland.mainz_at_informatik.med.uni-giessen.de)
Date: 05/08/03 

Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:06:53 +0200

"Richard L. Hamilton" wrote:

> > Correction. You are likely referring to ksh93.
> > Solaris ships (unfortunately) with a far older and very limited version
> > of ksh (ksh88).
> > (Yes, there is /usr/openwin/bin/dtksh - a ksh93-variant, however that
> > version seems to be completey unmaintained and unuseable as default user
> > shell... ;-((( ))
>
> Well...the ksh93 it derives from seems a bit old (some newer features
> still missing), but I've been using it as my login shell for ages with
> no problems. What doesn't it do for you in interactive use?

Problems with $LANG!=en_US, window resizing, history support and a bunch
of silly bugs which have been fixed in newer versions of ksh93 since
_years_ comes ad-hoc in mind (but I guess all hope is lost for Solaris
dtksh - I doubt anyone at Sun cares much about it and I doubt it's an
option to get the source, create patches and get them reintegrated into
Solaris... ;-(( ). 

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