On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:03:56PM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> Is ksh required by POSIX?
I don't believe so, based on the fact that the Tru64 man pages are
littered with information on the standards on which commands are
based, and there's no reference in the ksh man page. For sh, Tru64
supplies a Bourne shell and a POSIX.2 compliant shell, which I believe
are slightly different, which the POSIX shell being a little closer to
ksh.
> Is ksh generally implemented by all the various Unixes out there (both
> commercial and free)? (POSIX conformance varies.)
I believe historically most Unices have licensed it and made it
available, although perhaps not for free. Linux, of course, doesn't
usually have the official ksh, but may have pdksh (public domain Korn
shell). Of course, now that the source the ksh has been opened (I
don't know the license), things may change.
> In particular, I really hate people who put Perl scripts in
> /etc/init.d (or local equivalent). Why do people thing /usr will always be
> there?
Good point.
Now back to my ksh programming... :-)
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