On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Gerhard S. wrote:

> > POSIX compliance is a key feature of Solaris, I
> > wouldn't expect SUN to
> > change this.
>
> Can you please quote the part of POSIX that
> forbids having working cursor keys in a shell?
> Hint: You won't find it. There isn't any.

Is there a section that demands that cursor keys are supported?

> And is Solaris bourne shell really POSIX compliant now? It
> wasn't traditionally and you needed ksh or xpg4 sh
> for that.

That is true.  But the point about backwards compatibility
still stands.

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