ksh incompatabilities with sh?

John P. Nelson jpn at teddy.UUCP
Tue Jun 21 07:46:25 AEST 1988


>It should be noted, however, that the Korn shell (at least the
>versions I've used) does _n_o_t keep the environment alphabetized,
>as do the other shells; this is a documented inconsistency ...

Sorry, but csh doesn't seem to keep environment variables alphabetized,
either.  This would appear to be an ideosyncracy unique to "sh".

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