Re: Solaris /bin/ksh still broken

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:24:49PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> >According to Joerg Schilly, it is a hacked up ksh8x. You don't want to
> >have the source for it :-) When I spoke with him about this issue in
> >Chemnitz, he suggested the XPG4 shell...
> 
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /bin/ksh are almost equal on my system (Solaris 8), 
> and the bug also occurs with the XPG4 shell.

There are a few alternativies left:
1.) Solaris 8 provides "/usr/bin/bash" via the "SUNWbash" package.
2.) KSH 93 is available as "/usr/dt/bin/dtksh" in the "SUNWdtbas" package.

        Kind regardsd

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/