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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: PD ksh status (was: Request for public domain copy of KSH)
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Date: 17 May 88 20:52:23 GMT
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> For the nth time, Ksh is not public domain.  I seriously doubt that
> there are public domain programs (now) that emulate ksh.  The GNU
> project is working on such a thing (comments John Gilmore?).

Here is an overview of my PD KornShell (not related to GNU's).

- (almost) SysV/POSIX compatible.
- a subset of AT&T KornShell (it is small, will fit in 64K minus -o emacs).
- faster that csh (not surprising, if you know how csh works).
- integer variables and expressions, but no arrays or other attributes.
- BRL emacs editing mode (similar to Korn's).
- the following Korn builtins:
print getopts typeset whence alias unalias hash* let fc jobs fg bg kill bind*

I use it as my login shell but it is still under development.
I don't know when it will be ready for beta-testing.