David Korn wrote: > Here is the list that comes with the shell source. > ==================== COMPATIBILITY========================= > > KSH-93 VS. KSH-88 > > > The following is a list of known incompatibilities between ksh-93 and ksh-88. > I have not include cases that are clearly bugs in ksh-88. I also have > omitted features that are completely upward compatible.
> I am interested in expanding this list so please let me know if you > uncover any others. I am unable to create an alias with a colon ":" in its name. e.g. $ alias :e=vi alias: :e=vi: invalid alias name This doesn't appear to be covered by any of the incompatibilities you listed, nor does it fall under any restriction I can find in the ksh93 documentation. Dave