thanks this has been fixed in the next release with a set of tests for the surprising number of corner cases
the ast implementation was bitten by lines crossing buffer boundaries the fix includes a --regress option that sets the buffer size to 4 to exercise buffer boundary cases On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:25:48 +0100 Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > I just noticed this in ksh93: > ksh93 -c 'yes "" | head -5|cat -n' > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > (I used this for older shells when I want to a list of all integers from 1 > to a particular number) > Casper > _______________________________________________ > ksh93-integration-discuss mailing list > ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ksh93-integration-discuss