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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: The Revenge of CSH
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:07:09 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- References: <Bzz748.GDK@csn.org> <HUANG1.92Dec29101449@husc11.harvard.edu> <800@cebu.sbi.com>
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- In article <800@cebu.sbi.com> goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith) writes:
-
- [about ksh]
- >(it is also the official POSIX shell, so it is, after a fashion, a standard
- >in itself)
-
- This is somewhat inaccurate. The Posix 1003.2 folks took a number of
- features from the Korn shell and incorporated them into their shell
- specification, but ksh-88 (and perhaps not ksh-92, if Korn follows through
- on some of his previous statements) is not fully compliant with the Posix.2
- spec. There is no `official Posix shell'. There are simply shells which
- comply with the 1003.2 specification. ksh is quite close to complying. So
- are bash and the 4.4 BSD-alpha sh.
-
- Chet
-
- --
- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
-
- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
-