(I'm catching up on some old mail, including the private discussions
before Roland created the ksh93-integration project.)

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> writes:

Bill> as I see it, the most crucial part of this proposal is an accurate
Bill> enumeration of all the areas in which the two shells differ, an
Bill> honest guess as to what fraction of scripts are affected, and an
Bill> estimate of the degree of difficulty of repairing such scripts.

One of the things Roland suggested was creating /usr/bin/oksh.  Anyone
who is unsure about the ksh93 compatibility of their scripts, or who
knows they need ksh88, could change their scripts to use oksh instead of
ksh.

This seems pretty straightforward, particularly if we provide a tool to
help.

mike

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