I have to followup on my own post from last week. The proposed new version of ksh that I installed has a horrible side effect when using the interactive history functions in vi mode; misplacing the cursor, displaying control code, and thus making it impossible to use. (I'm working on 64 bit Linux.) Has someone observed a similar behaviour?
I switched back to the 2010 version and the history fine again; modulo that real number bug - but I can do arithmetic using other tools, still better than a spoiled history function. From: janis_papanag...@hotmail.com To: ast-users@lists.research.att.com Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:58:28 +0200 Subject: Re: [ast-users] A real number arithmetic issue Yes, indeed, four years is obviously too old. :-) I downloaded the binary from http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download/ and can confirm your results from the test case. Just wondered that the latest precompiled binary for a standalone ksh is also "quite old" (2012-08-06 BASE linux.i386-64); is above download link still valid? - I noticed you are using a 2014 version. Thanks! Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:48:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [ast-users] A real number arithmetic issue From: dgk...@gmail.com To: janis_papanag...@hotmail.com; ast-users@lists.research.att.com I suspect that this is because you are running a very old ksh93. Here is what I get on ubuntu linux x86_63.13.0-30-generic4 release . [...] On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanag...@hotmail.com> wrote: I've just noticed something strange with real number arithmetic in ksh. The problem: It seems that the fractional part in a division is interpreted as integer. [...] All done in the LC_ALL=C locale. On a Linux 2.6 platform. Am I doing something wrong or is this some shell issue? Thanks! _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list ast-users@lists.research.att.com http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list ast-users@lists.research.att.com http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
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