Importing mksh in base

[Cy Schubert]

In message <79948.1548545435 at kaos.jnpr.net>, "Simon J. Gerraty" writes:
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:
> > Why not ksh93 instead? It is the original and authoritative Korn
> > shell. EPL i
>
> Sure but my experience was (back in maybe 2000 or there abouts) it was lame
> compared to pdksh ;-) emacs mode as crude, no interactive history
> search.

It was closed source then. AT&T and Sun had no interest in spending 
salaried time on a shell but times have now changed and ksh is open 
source. Check out the ksh93-devel port.


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