[ksh93-integration-discuss] [install-discuss] No manual entry for ksh93 in nv_72

[Roland Mainz]

Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> Roland Mainz stated:
> < Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> < > William Pursell stated:
> < > < After installing nv_72 I can't find the manual page for ksh93:
> < > < # which ksh93
> < > < /usr/bin/ksh93
> < > < # man ksh93
> < > < No manual entry for ksh93.
> < > <
> < > < Is the manual page in a different package or just missing?
> < >
> < >   Its in a different path:
> < >
> < > $ man -M /usr/dt/man ksh93
> <
> < Urgh... that's the old ksh93 manual page shipped for CDE's ksh93 ...
> 
>   Argh, my bad sorry wrong man page.

No problem... many people fell into that trap... ;-/
... I've uploaded a HTML version of the current manual page to
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs/ksh93s/man/man1/sh/

> < yes... it's a ksh93 manual page but it lacks around twelve or more years
> < of development&&evolution between ksh93 version 'd-' (the basis for
> < Sun's dtksh (and I really wish Sun would update dtksh's ksh93 basis to a
> < newer version (yes, I know... noone at Sun cares about that...))) and
> < the ksh93 version 's+' we added in Solaris 11/Nevada build 72...
> 
>   well CDE is going (sometime) so..

AFAIK "dtksh" will stay around (together with the CDE libraries) since
it's a (scriptable) interface (and sometimes I wish I would be allowed
to fix it (it's not even difficult work)) ...

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bye,
Roland

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