ksh incompatabilities with sh?

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <54188 at sun.uucp>, guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
< > > Well, no, you really can't, not always.  There are supposedly a few real
< > > live incompatibilities that may break some scripts.
< > 
< > I have heard this too, over the years, and would like real
< > documentation on what's wrong.
<
<	anecdote of someones experience replacing sh with ksh removed
< 
< The Korn shell (the pre-"ksh-i" version, anyway) does come with a file named
< COMPATIBILITY that lists a number of "sh"/"ksh" incompatibilities.

The book (still unpublished) by Korn and Bolsky on ksh programming has
an appendix that lists all the incompatibilities between ksh and SVR2 sh.

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