AST versions of fold, mktemp, pathchk, & tty [PSARC/2009/414 FastTrack timeout 07/31/2009]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Personally, I think --man, --html and --nroff and such is a dangerous
> precedent to set.  I'd rather not have them, and instead rely on the
> "man" command to provide this functionality. 

Isn't it a bit late to raise such a concern, since the precedent was set
in the long list of previous cases that used AST/ksh93 implementations?

> But part of the cost is a much higher cost to perform localization for these

No matter what you multiply $0 by, it's still $0.   (We don't localize man
pages in Solaris.   A subset of man pages used to be translated to Japanese,
but I believe even that is no longer done.)

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