On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:

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=>At some point hitherto, Tom Buskey hath spake thusly:
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=>> I've had problems with [[ ]] on pdksh in the past.  [ ] is also 
=>> internal on modern unixen.
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=>You can get the real ksh from David Korn's website.  It's now freely
=>available, though I don't know what the licensing terms are.  If
=>you're a Korn shell fan, you can have the real thing.
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=>Don't know the URL...  I'm sure a search will turn it up.
The official site for ksh is oddly enough  
http://www.kornshell.com/software/

But somewhere I managed to find a src.rpm of it. This is the real deal: 
ksh93

If anyone wants it, I put up a copy on 
http://www2.syslang.net:8080/ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.src.rpm

Ksh93 is subtley different from bash and even more subtley different from 
ksk88. But for my money, the shells come in the following ranking:

* csh (all flavors) Dangerous junk.
* bash The best of the login shells
* ksh (Both flavors, 88 and 93) The best choice for industrial script 
  programming.
* sh An old evil that sometimes still forces itself to be used.

The differences are easily worth hours of lecture time over the right dark 
adult malted beverage.

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