Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh
From: Chet Ramey <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:26:40 -0500

> Nope, bash is not ksh. There are quite a few ksh93 features that are not
> implemented in bash (and possibly quite a few from ksh88 days, but I
> don't have details on those).

pd-ksh doesn't implement them either.  It attempts to emulate ksh88, with
a few ksh93 features that POSIX specifies.

The ksh88 and ksh93 features that bash does not implement (with suggested
bash equivalents for a few) are listed in the FAQ.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    [email-masked]    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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