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From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh incompatabilities with sh?
Message-ID: <546@zorch.UU.NET>
Date: 24 May 88 03:10:37 GMT
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In article <54188@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>All I know is that somebody tried doing exactly that (replacing "/bin/sh" with
>the Korn shell) on a system with an S5R2 or later Bourne shell, and found that
>a lot of his shell scripts broke.

When David Korn spoke at the SVNet meeting last month, the question
of compatibility came up briefly (very!).  The one item that I specifically
recall is the venerable ^ when used as a synonym for |.  Supposedly an
early version of /etc/shutdown for System V used ^ as a pipe...

I wouldn't base any purchasing decisions on this recollection...
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