>> They're shipping ksh93, which is open source.
>>  Solaris includes ksh88
>> (g I believe), which is not.  We'd love to just
>> upgrade, but they're
>> not 100% compatible.
>> 
>
> In the document:
>http://www.kornshell.com/info/
>it says it's compatable.   Just curious what the big compatiblity
>problems are?  Sun technically ships ksh93 in the form of 'dtksh'.
>I can imagine if you have to open ksh88 up it's going to be 
>a bumpy road.  If I remember correct it's got Novell copyrights
>all over it.   What programs are at risk if it was upgraded to ksh93?


It says that it is but it is not.  (It's mostly compatible and that's
just not good enough; a few environment variables behave differently, for
one)

Casper

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