I'll comment that the lack of a public issue tracker and source code
repository is a major hindrance to bug reporting and patch
development---did somebody already identify or patch a particular bug,
or was it otherwise already fixed in the upstream?---and makes it
difficult to gauge release-worthiness.

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Nathan Weeks
IT Specialist
USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit
Crop Genome Informatics Laboratory
Iowa State University
http://weeks.public.iastate.edu/

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM,
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:38:48 -0500
> From: "Terrence J. Doyle" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ast-users] ksh93v?
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
>
>         I've been finding so many bugs in Version ABIJM 93v- 2014-12-24 that I
> don't see how it can be deemed release-worthy.
>
>         We need more people in the community to download the beta, test it,
> make bug reports and even provide patches. Feel free to join in.
>
>         I'm trying to get out reports and patches out myself, but it's one of
> those things where, as I investigate one bug, I find more bugs.
>
>         You use find -print0? So, some of the path names you deal with contain
> embedded newlines? Have you tried tw? It's really quite powerful.
>
>                                         Terrence Doyle
>
> On 9/20/15 3:28 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>> any idea when ksh93v will ship? i'm eagerly awaiting read -d '', which is 
>> currently the only reason i have for writing anything in bash
>>
>> (i have to deal with a lot of trees of arbitrarily-named files, so find 
>> -print0|while IFS= read -rd '' is essential to many of my ad-hoc scripts)
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