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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:26:40 -0500
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT INS DOT CWRU DOT Edu>
To: khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU
Subject: Re: KSH is pdksh
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, dkarr AT tcsi DOT com, chet AT po DOT cwru DOT edu
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X-In-Reply-To:  Message from khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU of Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:07:04 -0600 (CST) (id <Pine DOT HPP DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 1010124210336 DOT 12201A-100000 AT hp2 DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>)

> 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    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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