Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > Bash was bigger than ksh in the non-commercial Unix world because of ksh88 > licensing problems. Back in 1998 I wanted to teach a ksh scripting > course to my local LUG, but AT&T (David Korn himsef!) told me I couldn't > give people copies of the shell to take home. AFAIR, ksh was OSS (but not using an OSI approved license) since 1997. Since 2001, ksh is under a OSI approved license. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'