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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: looking for korn
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Date: 19 Mar 93 11:43:57 GMT
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In article <52540001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com
(Reinier Kleipool) writes:
>
> Try bash, which should be in /usr/othersrc/public/bash.... it's not
> the same, but all korn shell features (and more) are available.

This is false.  Bash does not have arrays or process redirection, two
features which I use constantly in rc and ksh.

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