Hi, Andras Farkas wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 02:54:01PM -0400:
> In ksh.1, in the See Also section, this book is referenced: > Morris Bolsky and David Korn, The KornShell Command and Programming > Language, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0131827006. > However, the book with that ISBN number has a different name, as > attested to here: > https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=545704&preflayout=flat > and by looking up the ISBN on Google and Amazon. (I also own the book > with this ISBN number, and can confirm those sources _are_ correct) > So if this book is to be referenced, the title given should be: > The New KornShell Command and Programming Language > The reference to it being a second edition then becomes optional, and > fine either way. > > However, it may be worthwhile reverting the reference to be to the > first edition of the book: > https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=77009&preflayout=flat > The 2nd edition is about ksh93, while the first edition is about > ksh88. The ksh clone in OpenBSD is not a ksh93 clone. > > Relevant diff where this change occurred: > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1.diff?r1=1.150&r2=1.151 Since jmc@ asked me to handle this, i committed the following patch. Thanks for reporting, Ingo CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2019/06/24 08:22:39 Modified files: bin/ksh : ksh.1 Log message: Partial revert of rev. 1.151: Reference the First Edition (1989) of Bolsky/Korn which is about ksh88, the shell the OpenBSD ksh(1) descends from (via pdksh). The Second Edition (1995) of the book is about ksh93 which we don't provide. Pointed out by Andras Farkas on bugs@. Index: ksh.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1,v retrieving revision 1.205 retrieving revision 1.206 diff -u -r1.205 -r1.206 --- ksh.1 21 Jun 2019 10:49:17 -0000 1.205 +++ ksh.1 24 Jun 2019 14:22:39 -0000 1.206 @@ -5545,10 +5545,12 @@ .Rs .%A Morris Bolsky .%A David Korn -.%B The KornShell Command and Programming Language, 2nd Edition -.%D 1995 +.%B The KornShell Command and Programming Language +.%D First Edition 1989 .%I Prentice Hall -.%O ISBN 0131827006 +.%O ISBN 0135169720 +.\" The second edition of the above book (1995) is about ksh93, +.\" but the OpenBSD ksh is a decendant from ksh88 via pdksh. .Re .Rs .%A Stephen G. Kochan
