[ksh93-integration-discuss] meaning of "obsolete second form of cd"in the ksh man page?

[Roland Mainz]

Bernd Finger - Sun Germany wrote:
> I just installed ksh93 on my OpenSolaris systems, as a default shell for user
> root and my regular user. I'm quite impressed, and I hope this will be the
> default shell for Solaris soon!

Did you compile it from source or did you use one of the binary packages
from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/
(if "yes" - which one ?) ?

> In the man page, in the "Built-in Commands" section, under "cd", I found the
> following text:
> 
> --->
>       cd [ -LP ] [ arg ]
>       cd [ -LP ] old new
> .
> .
> .
>            The obsolete second form of cd substitutes  the  string
>            new  for  the string old in the current directory name,
>            PWD and tries to change to this new directory.
> <---
> 
> What exactly does "obsolete" mean? I am using this feature from time to time, so
> it would be great if we can keep it for future releases.
> 
> I suggest removing the word "obsolete" from that paragraph in the man page.

Uhm... I think you are using the ksh93 manual page shipped for "dtksh" -
the CDE destkop korn shell which ksh93 with add-ons for
X11/Xt/Motif/CDE. Unfortunately the Solaris dtksh is based on "ksh93d"-
(which means someone grabed an alpha version of ksh93 and shipped that
with a production version of an OS, something which should have been
NEVER done) which is MANY MANY years older than the current "ksh93r+".

For verification: What does $ man -l ksh93 # output on your machine ?

A newer version of the manual page can be found at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs/ksh93r/man/man1/sh/
(this is for "ksh93r" and not for "ksh93r+" and lacks some newer things
but it is still better than the manual page for "ksh93d-") ...

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Bye,
Roland

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