OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:49:48PM -0400):

| Quoting Bob Stockler (Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:41:56 -0400):
| [...]
| > I agree with you 100%  SCO has been pretty good at maintaining
| > backwards compatibity for a long time, but - even since this is
| > a major point release - since they still call it OpenSever it
| > shouldn't break things that ran OK on previous version of it.
| >
| > They blew it this time in the ways you've described.
| >
| > Bob (who still likes OSR6 and its much faster filesystem)
| [...]
| 
| Now, if only system() would run /bin/sh rather than the incompatible
| /u95/bin/sh instead.  (Regardless of the SHELL setting.)

Why?  What's incompatible about it?  It's the latest version of
the REAL KornShell (ksh93) and is (mostly) backwards commpatible
with the Bourne shell when doing what the Bourne shell would do.

Bob

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