On 7/7/05, Gerhard S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you please quote the part of POSIX that > forbids having working cursor keys in a shell? > Hint: You won't find it. There isn't any.
I never said that it did. But, it does require certain actions all the way down to how the cursor behaves when in certain editing modes. > And is Solaris bourne shell really POSIX compliant now? It > wasn't traditionally and you needed ksh or xpg4 sh > for that. Even if the Solaris bourne shell isn't POSIX compliant (which I have perhaps wrongly assumed it was), you still have the issue of backwards compatability, and that is a paramount feature in enterprise level systems. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
