[Info-vax] Foreign commands ... newbie question

[John Reagan]

"Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote in message 
news:j7ko7u$8qe$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...
> On 2011-10-18 18.44, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article<j7k091$mr$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny 
>> Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>  writes:
>>>
>>> Oh, and the shell pretty much works the same no matter which flavor of
>>> Unix it runs under.
>>
>>     "pretty much"?  If I stand far enough away I can say that VMS
>>     filesystems and UNIX file systems look "pretty much" the same,
>>     a hierarchy of directories with files in them.  8-)
>
> :-)
>
>>     But I do know that my ksh on Sun sucks compared to all other ksh
>>     I've used.
>
> Unfortunately, I never used ksh, and have a hard time making much comment 
> on it. I know that you'll have to work really hard to spot any differences 
> between bash on different Unixes. And the same is true for csh and tcsh (I 
> honestly don't know how you would).

The trouble with ksh is that many vendors still ship ksh88 eventhough there 
was a major set of enhancements in 1993 (aka ksh93).  Bash knows about all 
the ksh93 features, but many ksh's are still ksh88 (including the one 
shipping on HP-UX).

John