On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:04:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> Obviously you you didn't read the link I sent. It describes the origins 
> of exactly that shell that you describe, what M$ said about said shell 
> when it was first announced and... well, without giving out too much of 
> the punch line - demonstrates what happens when M$ marketing Reality 
> Distortion Field hits a massive object :-)

No it does not. The shell in SFU is pdksh, not the MKS shell.

>From the pdksh web page: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/

PD-ksh is a clone of the AT&T Korn shell. At the moment, it has most of
the ksh88 features, not much of the ksh93 features, and a number of its
own features. 

<note>
It really feels weird defending Microsoft on a Linux list. :-)

Geoff.
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