On 24 July 2013 19:32, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:52:14 +0200 Tina Harriott wrote:
>> Does ast-ksh have extension packages like "demo" and "contrib" like
>> bash and zsh do?
>
> in ksh user extension are called builtins and have an main(argc,argv,context) 
> api
> its described in the nav bar at
>         http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/
>         AST => ksh => builtins
> ksh has some builtins implemented directly in its source
> there and many other ast builtins implemented in
>         src/lib/libcmd

I think you misunderstood the question. For example, bash provides
demo and contrib packages. Demo contains demo scripts to show the
various features of a shell, and contrib contains extra functionality
written by people who are not in the core development team but are
otherwise thought to be useful.

Tina
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Tina Harriott  - Women in Mathematics
Contact: tina.harriott.mathemat...@gmail.com
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