This package is a superset of the following packages: ast-base ast-make ast-ksh ksh ast-ast; you won't need these if you download ast-open. A recent release change log is also included.

3d works in conjunction with ksh88 or ksh93. The 3d command with no arguments enters a 3d shell. The vpath builtin controls the logical filesystem view:

     vpath dir_1 dir_2

     vpath dir_2 dir_3

     export HOSTTYPE=$(package)
     vpath $HOME/arch/$HOSTTYPE $HOME

2d can prefix any command to disable 3d for that command:

     2d ls *.c

3d also provides tracing, monitoring and call intercept services. vpm uses monitoring to graph the process and io hierarchy. The cs name server uses pathname call intercepts to translate network pathnames. Try this for any host:

     cat /dev/tcp/hostname/inet.daytime

coshell is easy to use and administer. The only privilege required for installation, administration or use is rsh access to the local hosts. coshell does requires a uniform file namespace across all hosts on the local network.

nmake and gmake users can take advantage of network execution with no makefile modifications. Shell level access is similar to but more efficient than rsh and allows host expression matching to replace the explicit host name argument.

Factor of 5 compilation speedups are typical.

To start your local daemon:

     coshell +

     export COSHELL=coshell
     export NPROC=8

     coshell -r - 'hostname; sort a > b' &
     pid=$!
     # other stuff
     wait $pid

     coshell -
     coshell> s
      ... status ...
     coshell> h
      ... help ...
     coshell> q

ie intercepts the read(3) system call by preloading a DLL (shared library) at runtime, so it only works on architectures that support DLL preload. Statically-linked, set-uid or set-gid commands will not work with ie.

The code should conform to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1 standard and to the proposed ANSI-C standard so that it should be portable to all such systems. Like the previous version, KSH-88, it is designed to accept eight bit character sets transparently, thereby making it internationally compatible. It can support multi-byte characters sets with some characteristics of the character set given at run time.

KSH-93 provides the following features, many of which were also inherent in KSH-88:

• Enhanced Command Re-entry Capability: The KSH-93 history function records commands entered at any shell level and stores them, up to a user-specified limit, even after you log off. This allows you to re-enter long commands with a few keystrokes - even those commands you entered yesterday. The history file allows for eight bit characters in commands and supports essentially unlimited size histories.
• In-line Editing: In "sh", the only way to fix mistyped commands is to backspace or retype the line. KSH-93 allows you to edit a command line using a choice of EMACS-TC or "vi" functions. You can use the in-line editors to complete filenames as you type them. You may also use this editing feature when entering command lines from your history file. A user can capture keystrokes and rebind keys to customize the editing interface.
• Extended I/O Capabilities: KSH-93 provides several I/O capabilities not available in "sh", including the ability to:
  • specify a file descriptor for input and output
  • start up and run co-processes
  • produce a prompt at the terminal before a read
  • easily format and interpret responses to a menu
  • echo lines exactly as output without escape processing
  • format output using printf formats.
  • read and echo lines ending in "\".
• Improved performance: KSH-93 executes many scripts faster than the System V Bourne shell. A major reason for this is that many of the standard utilities are built-in. To reduce the time to initiate a command, KSH-93 allows commands to be added as built-ins at run time on systems that support dynamic loading such as System V Release 4.
• Arithmetic: KSH-93 allows you to do integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four. You can also do double precision floating point arithmetic. Almost the complete set of C language operators are available with the same syntax and precedence. Arithmetic expressions can be used to as an argument expansion or as a separate command. In addition there is an arithmetic for command that works like the for statement in C.
• Arrays: KSH-93 supports both indexed and associative arrays. The subscript for an indexed array is an arithmetic expression, whereas, the subscript for an associative array is a string.
• Shell Functions and Aliases: Two mechanisms - functions and aliases - can be used to assign a user-selected identifier to an existing command or shell script. Functions allow local variables and provide scoping for exception handling. Functions can be searched for and loaded on first reference the way scripts are.
• Substring Capabilities: KSH-93 allows you to create a substring of any given string either by specifying the starting offset and length, or by stripping off leading or trailing substrings during parameter substitution. You can also specify attributes, such as upper and lower case, field width, and justification to shell variables.
• More pattern matching capabilities: KSH-93 allows you to specify extended regular expressions for file and string matches.
• KSH-93 uses a hierarchal name space for variables. Compound variables can be defined and variables can be passed by reference. In addition, each variable can have one or more disciplines associated with it to intercept assignments and references.
• Improved debugging: KSH-93 can generate line numbers on execution traces. Also, I/O redirections are now traced. There is a DEBUG trap that gets evaluated before each command so that errors can be localized.
• Job Control: On systems that support job control, including System V Release 4, KSH-93 provides a job-control mechanism almost identical to that of the BSD "csh", version 4.1. This feature allows you to stop and restart programs, and to move programs between the foreground and the background.
• Added security: KSH-93 can execute scripts which do not have read permission and scripts which have the setuid and/or setgid set when invoked by name, rather than as an argument to the shell. It is possible to log or control the execution of setuid and/or setgid scripts. The noclobber option prevents you from accidentally erasing a file by redirecting to an existing file.
• KSH-93 can be extended by adding built-in commands at run time. In addition, KSH-93 can be used as a library that can be embedded into an application to allow scripting.

• file modification times
• explicit prerequisites (from makefile assertions)
• implicit prerequisites (from #include scanning)
• action text (used to build targets)
• variable values
• target attributes

Most makefiles are just a few lines:

     :PACKAGE: X11
     
     xgame :: README xgame.6 xgame.h xgame.c xutil.c -lXaw -lXmu -lXt

     CCFLAGS = $(CC.DLL)
     
     ast 4.0 :LIBRARY: ast.c strmatch.c

To create a vdelta compressed base archive:

     tw | pax -w -f base -z -

     tw | pax -w -f delta -z base

     pax -r -f delta -z base

     pax -rf linux-1.2.5.tar.gz -wf 0-5.pax.gz -x gzip -z linux-1.2.0.tar.gz

     pax -rf 0-5.pax.gz -z linux-1.2.0.tar.gz -wf linux-1.2.5.tar.gz -x tar -x gzip

     #pragma prototyped

proto also converts in the other direction by providing extern prototypes for a collection of K&R source files and by converting K&R source files in place. K&R to ANSI is not 100%, but is a good starting point for manual conversion.

proto is token based (no C grammar); this allows it to convert before C preprocessing, and also allows proto to be inserted into the standalone cpp. This is how nmake compiles ANSI C source with K&R compilers.

tksh is not yet another port of Tk to another language -- it allows Tcl scripts to run without modification using the ksh93 internals. This makes it possible to combine Tcl and ksh93, which is useful for writing ksh93 scripts that use components that have been implemented in Tcl (such as Tk widgets).

tksh was developed by Jeff Korn and is distributed by advsoft@research.att.com. For the latest information vist the tksh home page.

     tw

     tw chmod go-rwx

     tw -d /usr/src -e "name=='*.[chly]'" grep FOOBAR

tw efficiently prunes the file tree search; it follows symbolic links by default (logical walk). The getconf variable PATH_RESOLVE controls the default behavior for all advsoft commands:

     getconf PATH_RESOLVE - physical

     tw -P -e type==LNK

     tw -e "mtime>='yesterday morning'"

     tw -e "(mode & 'u+s') && magic == '*script*'" chmod u-s

     tw -e "mime == '*/exe'"

     time' = time + warp + (time - base) * (factor - 1)

• time' The logical system time seen by the command process.
• time The physical system time.
• warp A fixed offset from the physical system time (i.e., the warp.)
• base The physical system time when warp was first applied to the process or any ancestor process.
• factor The rate of logical time change with respect to the physical clock (i.e., the warp factor.)

Statically-linked, set-uid or set-gid commands are not warped.

Interface

The components of the warp formula are set as follows: the warp offset warp is date-now, base is date by default, and factor is 1 by default.

Command argument date specifications support common conventions:

     yesterday
     next week
     50 days
     2000-02-28/00:00
     feb 28 2000

The -n option shows how command would be executed without actually executing it. The -t option traces each intercepted system call.

warp executes command with optional args, or $SHELL if command is omitted.

Examples

     $ date -f %Y-%m-%d/%H:%M
     1998-03-11/13:41
     $ warp 2000-02-29/12:30:30 date -f %Y-%m-%d/%H:%M
     2000-02-29/12:30
     $ date -f %Y-%m-%d/%H:%M
     1998-03-11/13:44
     $ warp +57060970 date
     2000-01-01/00:00
     
     # get a shell where 1 logical day passes for each physical second
     $ PS1='(warp) ' warp -f $(60*60*24) 2000-02-29/12:30:30
     (warp) date -f %Y-%m-%d/%H:%M
     2000-03-07/18:58
     (warp) sleep 1
     (warp) date -f %Y-%m-%d/%H:%M
     2000-03-19/18:58

tksh is not yet another port of Tk to another language -- it allows Tcl scripts to run without modification using the ksh93 internals. This makes it possible to combine Tcl and ksh93, which is useful for writing ksh93 scripts that use components that have been implemented in Tcl (such as Tk widgets).

tksh was developed by Jeff Korn and is distributed by advsoft@research.att.com. For the latest information vist the tksh home page.

All recorded changes follow.

08-07-25  --- Release ksh93t  ---
08-07-18  A bug in which a nameref caused a local variable to be created
	  rather than binding to an existing variable in the global scope
	  has been fixed.
08-07-17  A bug which occured when a nameref was created from within a
	  function that was  part of a pipeline has been fixed.
08-07-14  The compile option SHOPT_STATS was added. With this option the
	  compound variable .sh.stats keeps usage statistics that could help
	  with performance tuning.
08-07-10  The output of set now always uses a single line for each variable.
	  For array variables, the complete set of values is now displayed.
08-07-09  The typeset -C option can be used with arrays to indicate that
	  each element should default to a compound variable.
08-07-08  The %B format now outputs compound variables and arrays.  The
	  alternate flag # can be used to cause output into a single line.
08-07-03  When the window change signal, WINCH, is received, the current
	  edit line is redrawn in place. 
08-07-01  A bug in the handling of shared variables when inside an embedded
	  type has been fixed.
08-06-29  A bug in multiline edit mode which occured when the prompt length
	  was three characters or less has been fixed.
08-06-23  A bug in which the SIGCLD was not be triggered when background
	  jobs completed has been fixed.
08-06-23  KSH_VERSION added as a name reference to .sh.version.
08-06-20  type now outputs 'special builtin' for special builtins.
08-06-19  A couple of bugs in multi-dimensional arrays have been fxied.
08-06-19  A bug in which a syntax error in a dot script could generated
	  a syntax error in the next subsequent command has been fixed.
08-06-17  Reduced the maximum function call depth to 2048 to avoid exceptions
	  on some architectures.
08-06-16  A bug in which printf "%B" could generate an exception when the
	  specified variable was not set has been fixed.
08-06-16  When typeset -p is followed by variable names, it now displays
	  the attributes names and values for the specific names.
08-06-14  A bug that could effect the drawing of the screen from multiline
	  emacs or gmacs mode when walking up the history file has been fixed.
08-06-13  A bug in which a compound variable defined in a subshell could
	  have side effects into the parent shell has been fixed.
08-06-13  A number of bugs related to using .sh.level to set the stack from
	  for DEBUG traps have been fixed.
08-06-13  The .sh.lineno variable has been added.  When .sh.level is changed
	  inside a DEBUG trap, the .sh.lineno contains the calling line number
	  for the specified stack frame.
08-06-13  The .sh.level variable has been documented and now works.
08-06-11  The -C option has been added to read for reading compound command
	  definitions from a file.
08-06-11  The . command is now permitted inside a compound command definition.
	  The dot script can contain declaration commands and dot commands.
08-06-09  Add -C option to typeset so that typeset -C foo, is equivalent
	  to foo=().
08-06-09  Added -n warning message for typeset option orderings that are valid
	  with ksh88 but not valid with ksh93, for example Lx5.
08-06-09  A bug in which the return value for an assignment command containing
	  a command substitution with that failed was zero when the assignment
	  contained redirections has been fixed.
08-06-09  A bug in the quoting of $ inside a ERE pattern ~(E)(pattern)
	  has been fixed.
08-06-06  A bug when processing `` command substitution with the character
	  sequence \$' has been fixed.
08-06-02  When defining a type, the typeset -r attribute causes this field
	  to be required to be specified for each instance of the type and
	  does not allow a default value.
08-06-02  Several bugs in which compound variables were modified by
	  subshells have been fixed.
08-05-22  The ceil function has been added to the math functions.
08-05-21  A bug in which a name reference defined in a function and passed
	  as an argument to another function could cause an incorrect binding.
08-05-21  A bug in freeing compound variables that are local to functions
	  has been fixed.
08-05-19  The array expansions ${array[sub1..sub2]} and ${!array[sub1..sub2]}
	  to expand to the value (or subscripts) for array between sub1 and
	  sub2 inclusive.  For associative arrays, the range is based on
	  location in the POSIX locale.  The .. must be explicit and cannot
	  result from an expansion.
08-05-15  The trap on SIGCLD is no longer triggered by the completion of
	  the foreground job as with ksh88.
08-05-14  A bug in the implementation of the editing feature added on 
	  07-09-19 in emacs mode has been fixed.
08-05-12  A bug in processing the test built-in with parenthesis has been
	  fixed.
08-05-12  The unset built-in now returns non-zero when deleting an array
	  subscript that is not set.
08-05-08  Changing the value of HISTFILE or HISTSIZE will cause the old
	  history file to be close and reopened with the new name or size.
08-05-08  When FPATH is changed functions that were found via a path search
	  will be searched for again.
08-05-08  A parser bug in which reserved words and labels were recognized
	  inside compound indexed array assignment after a new-line has
	  been fixed.
08-05-07  A bug in getopts when handling numerical option arguments has
	  been fixed.
08-05-07  The typeset -S option was added for variables outside type
	  definitions to provide a storage class similar to C static
	  inside a function defined with function name.  When outside
	  type definitions and outside a function, the -S option cause
	  the specified variable so be unset before the assignment and
	  before the remaining attributes are supplied.
08-05-07  A bug that affected the cursor movement in multiline mode when
	  a character was deleted from near the beginning of the any
	  line other than the first.
08-05-01  In multiline edit mode, the refresh operation will now clear
	  the remaining portion of the last line.
08-05-01  A bug in computing prompt widths for the edit modes for prompts
	  with multibyte characters has been fixed.
08-05-01  A bug in the multiline edit mode which could cause the current
	  line to be displayed incorrectly when moving backwards from third
	  or higher line to the previous line has been fixed.
08-05-01  A bug in which options set in functions declared with the function
	  name syntax were carried across into functions invoked by these
	  functions has been fixed.
08-04-30  A bug which could cause a coprocess to hang when the read end
	  is a builtin command has been fixed.
08-04-30  The emacs and vi editors have been modified to handle window
	  change commands as soon as they happen rather than waiting for
	  the next command.
08-04-28  A bug in which ${!x} did not expand to x when x was unset has been
	  fixed.
08-04-27  A bug in which the assignment x=(typeset -a foo=([0]=abc)) created
	  x.foo as an associative array has been fixed.
08-04-25  A bug in which $# did not report correctly when there were more
	  than 32K positional parameters has been fixed.
08-04-04  Choose the name _ as the sub-variable that holds type or instance
	  specific data used by discipline functions.
08-03-27  A bug in which the terminal group was not given back to the parent
	  shell when the last part of a pipeline was handled by the parent shell
	  and the other parts of the pipeline complete has been fixed. 
	  The symtom was that the pipeline became uninterruptable.
08-03-25  A bug in restricted mode introduced in ksh93s that caused scripts
	  that did not use #! to executed in restriected mode has been fixed.
08-03-25  A bug in which the pipefail option did not work for a pipeline
	  within a pipeline has been fixed.
08-03-24  A bug in which OPTIND was not set correctly in subshells has
	  been fixed.
08-03-24  A bug which could cause a memory exception when a compound variable
	  containing an indexed array with only element 0 defined was expanded.
08-03-20  A bug in which ${!var[sub].*} was treated as an error has been fixed.
08-03-20  Associative array assignments of the form ([name]=value ...)
	  now allow ; as well as space tab and new line to separate elements.
08-03-18  A buffering problem in which standard error was sometimes
	  not flushed before sleep has been fixed.
08-03-17  A bug in which a signal sent to $$ while in a subshell would be
	  sent to the subshell rather than the parent has been fixed.
08-03-17  --default option added to set(1) to handle set +o POSIX semantics.
	  set --state added as a long name alias for set +o.
08-03-14  A bug in which using monitor mode from within a script could
	  cause the terminal group to change has been fixed.
08-03-10  The new ${...} command substitution will treat the trailing }
	  as a reserved word even if it is not at the beginning of a command,
	  for example, ${ date }.
08-03-10  If the name of the ENV begins with /./ or ././ then the
	  /etc/ksh.kshrc file will not be executed on systems that support
	  this interactive initialization file.
08-03-07  A bug in which ksh -i did not run the ENV file has been fixed.
08-03-07  A bug in which ulimit did not always produce the same output as
	  ulimit -fS has been fixed.
08-03-04  A bug in multiline mode in emacs and vi mode which could cause the
	  cursor to be on the wrong line when interrupt was hit has been fixed.
08-03-03  The change made in ksh93s+ on 07-06-18 in which braces became
	  optional for ${a[i]} inside  [[...]] was restored in the case
	  where the argument can be a pattern.
08-03-03  A bug in which creating a name reference to an associative array
	  instance would fail when the subscript contained characters [ or
	  ] has been fixed.
08-02-29  The redirection operator >; has been added which for non-special
	  files, generates the output in a temporary file and writes the
	  specified file only of the command has completed successfully.
08-02-15  A bug in ${var/pattern/string} for patterns of the form ?(*) and +(*)
	  has bee fixed.
08-02-07  A bug in which test \( ! -e \) produced an error has been fixed.
08-02-14  The typeset -a option can now optionally be followed by the name
	  of an enumerication type which allows subscripts to be enumerations.
08-02-14  The enum builtin which creates enumeration types has been added.
08-02-12  The backoff logic when there are no more processes has been fixed.
08-02-07  The -X option has been added to typeset.  The -X option creates
	  a double precision number that gets displayed using the C99 %a
	  format.  It can be used along with -l for long double.
08-01-31  The -T option to typeset has been added for creating typed
	  variables.  Also the -h and -S options have been added to
	  typeset that are only applicable when defining a type.
08-01-31  The prefix expansion operator @ has been added.  ${@name}
	  expandes to the type of name or yields the attributes.
07-11-15  A bug in the macro expander for multibyte characters in which
	  part of the character contains a file pattern byte has been fixed. 
07-10-03  A bug in which : was not allowed as part of an alias name has been
	  fixed.
07-09-26  A bug in which appending a compound variable to a compound variable
	  or to an index array didn't work has been fixed.
07-09-19  In both emacs and vi edit mode, the escape sequence \E[A (usually
	  cursor up, when the cursor is at the end of the line will fetch
	  the most recent line starting with the current line.
07-09-18  The value of ${!var} was correct when var was a reference to an
	  array instance.
07-09-18  The value of ${!var[sub]} was not expanding to var[sub] and this
	  was fixed.  It also fixed ${name} where name is a name reference
	  to var[sub].
07-09-18  It is now legal to create a name reference without an initialization.
	  It will be bound to a variable on the first assignment.
07-08-30  A discipline function can be invoked as ${x.foo} and is equivalent
	  to ${ x.foo;} and can be invoked as x.foo inside ((...)).
07-07-09  A bug in which typeset -a did not list indexed arrays has been
	  fixed.
07-07-03  The command substitution ${ command;} has been added.  It behaves
	  like $(command) except that command is executed in the current
	  shell environment.  The ${ must be followed by a blank or an
	  operator.

08-04-17  --- Release ksh93s+  ---
08-04-17  A bug in which umask was not being restored correctly after a
          subshell has been fixed.
08-04-15  A bug in which sending a STOP signal to a job control shell started
	  from within a shell function caused cause the invoking shell to
	  terminate has been fixed.
08-04-11  A bug which caused $(exec > /dev/null) to go into an infinite loop
	  has been fixed.
08-03-27  A bug in which typeset -LZ was being treated as -RZ has been fixed.
08-03-06  A bug with ksh -P on systems that support the the profile shell,
          in which it would exit after running a non-builtin has been fixed.
08-01-31  A bug in which command substitution inside ((...)) could cause
	  syntax errors or lead to core dumps has been fixed.
08-01-17  A bug in which discipline functions could be deleted when invoked
	  from a subshell has been fixed.
08-01-17  A bug in which a command substitution consisting only of
	  assignments was treated as a noop has been fixed.
08-01-17  A bug in which discipline functions invoked from withing a
	  compound assignment could fail has been fixed.
08-01-16  Incomplete arithmetic assigments, for example ((x += )), now
	  generate an error message.
08-01-16  A bug in which a set discipline defined for a variable before
	  an array assignment could cause a core dump has been fixed. 
08-01-03  A bug in on some systems in which exit status 0 is incorrectly
	  returned by a process that catches the SIGCONT signal is stopped 
	  and then continued.
07-12-13  A race condition in which a program that has been stopped and then
	  continued could loose the exit status has been fixed.
07-12-12  Code to check for file system out of space write errors for all
	  writes has been added.
07-12-11  A bug in the macro expander for multibyte characters in which
	  part of the character contains a file pattern byte has been fixed. 
07-12-06  A bug in the emacs edit mode when multiline was set that output
	  a backspace before the newline to the screen has been fixed.
07-12-04  A bug in which using <n>TAB after a variable name listing expansion
	  in the edit modes would cause the $ to disappear has been fixed.
07-11-28  A bug in which setting IFS to readonly could cause a subsequent
	  command substitution to fail has been fixed.
07-11-27  A work around for a gcc 4.* C99 "feature" that could cause a job
	  control shell to go into an infinite loop by adding the volatile
	  attribute to some auto vars in functions that call setjmp().
07-11-27  A bug in which the shell could read ahead on a pipe causing the
	  standard input to be incorrectly positioned has been fixed.
07-11-27  A bug in which compound variable UTF-8 multibyte values were not
	  expanded or traced properly has been fixed.
07-11-21  A bug where an unbalanced '[' in a command argument was not treated
	  properly has been fixed.
07-11-15  A bug in which compatibility mode (no long option names) getopts(1)
	  incorrectly set the value of OPTARG for flag options has been fixed.
07-11-15  A bug in which "hash -- name" treated "--" as an invalid name operand
	  has been fixed.
07-11-15  typeset now handles "-t -- [-r] [--]" for s5r4 hash(1) compatibility.
07-11-15  A bug in which the umask builtin mis-handled symbolic mode operands
	  has been fixed.
07-11-15  Bugs in which shell arithmetic and the printf builtin mis-handled the
	  signs of { -NaN -Inf -0.0 } have been fixed.
07-11-15  The full { SIGRTMIN SIGRTMIN+1 ... SIGRTMAX-1 SIGRTMAX } range
	  of signals, determined at runtime, are now supported.
07-11-15  A bug in which creating an index array with only subscript 0 created
	  only a simple variable has been fixed.
07-11-14  A bug in which appending to an indexed array using the form
	  name+=([sub]=value) could cause the array to become an associative
	  array has been fixed.
07-11-14  A bug in which typeset without arguments could coredump if a
	  variable is declared as in indexed array and  has no elements has
	  been fixed.
07-11-14  A bug in which creating a local SECONDS variable with typeset in
	  a function could corrupt memory has been fixed.
07-11-14  A bug which could cause a core dump when a script invoked by name
	  from a function used compound variables has been fixed.
07-11-05  A bug in which printf %d "'AB" did not diagnose unconverted characters
	  has been fixed.
07-11-05  printf %g "'A" support added for all floating point formats.
07-11-01  A bug in which typeset -f fun did not display the function definition
          when invoked in a subshell has been fixed.
07-10-29  The sleep builtin was fixed so that all floating point constants
	  are valid operands.
07-10-10  A bug in which the locale was not being restored after
          LANG=value command has been fixed.
07-09-20  A bug in which a nameref to a compound variable that was local
	  to the calling function would not expand correctly when displaying
	  is value has been fixed.
07-09-19  A bug which cause cause a core dump if .sh.edchar returned
	  80 characters or more from a keyboard trap has been fixed.
07-09-14  A bug in which could cause a core dump when more than 8 file
	  descriptors were in use has been fixed.
07-09-10  A bug in which creating a name reference to an instance of
	  an array when the array name is itself a reference has been fixed.
07-09-10  The file completion code has been modified so that after an = in
	  any word, each : will be considered a path delimiter.
07-09-06  A bug in which subprocess cleanup could corrupt the malloc() heap
          has been fixed.
07-08-26  A bug in which a name reference to an associatve array instance
	  could cause the subscript to be evaluated as an arithmetic expression
	  has been fixed.
07-08-22  A bug in which the value of an array instance was of a compound
	  variable was not expanded correctly has been fixed.
07-08-14  A bug which could cause a core dump when a compound assignment was
	  made to a compound variable element with a typeset -a attribute
	  has been fixed.
07-08-08  A bug in which a trap ignored in a subshell caused it to be
	  ignored by the parent has been fixed.
07-08-07  A bug in which the set command would generated erroneous output
	  for a variable with the -RZ attribute if the variable name had been
	  passed to a function has been fixed.
07-08-02  A bug in which read x[1] could core dump has been fixed.
07-08-02  A second bug in which after read x[sub] into an associative array
	  of an element that hasn't been assigned could lead to a core dump
	  has been fixed.
07-07-31  A bug in which a pipeline that completed correctly could have
	  an exit status of 127 when pipefail was enabled has been fixed.
07-07-09  The SHOPT_AUDIT compile option has been added for keyboard logging.
07-06-25  In vi insert mode, ksh no longer emits a backspace character
	  before the carraige return when the newline is entered. 
07-06-25  A bug in which pipefail would cause a command to return 0
	  when the pipeline was the last command and the failure happened
	  on a component other than the last has been fixed.
07-06-25  A bug in the expansion of ${var/pattern/rep} when pattern or rep
	  contained a left parenthesis in single quotes has been fixed.
07-06-18  The braces for a subscripted variable with ${var[sub]} are now
	  optional when inside [[...]], ((...)) or as a subscript.
07-05-28  A bug in brace expansion in which single and double quotes did
          not treat the comma as a literal character has been fixed.
07-05-24  The -p option of whence now disables -v.
07-05-23  Several bug fixes in compound variables and arrays of arrays
	  have been made.
07-05-15  A bug in which the %B format of printf was affected  by the
	  locale has been fixed.
07-05-14  A bug in which  was not removed in the replacement pattern with
	  ${var/pattern/rep} when it was not followed by  or a digit has
	  been fixed.
07-05-10  A bug in which ksh -R file core dumped if no script was specified
	  has been fixed.  it not displays an error message.
07-05-07  Added additional Solaris signals to signal table.
07-04-30  A bug in which a pipeline with command substitution inside a
	  function could cause a pipeline that invokes this function to
	  hang when the pipefail option is on has been fixed.
07-04-30  Added -q to whence.
07-04-18  A small memory leak with each redirection of a non-builtin has
	  been fixed.
07-03-08  A bug in which set +o output command line options has been fixed.
07-03-08  A bug in which an error in read (for example, an invalid variable
	  name), could leave the terminal in raw mode has been fixed.
07-03-06  A bug in which read could core dump when specified with an array
	  variable with a subscript that is an arithmetic expression has
	  been fixed.
07-03-06  Several serious bugs with the restricted shell were reported and
	  fixed.
07-03-02  If a job is stopped, and subsequently restarted with a CONT
	  signal and exits normally, ksh93 was incorrectly exiting with
	  the exit status of the stop signal number.
07-02-26  M-^L added to emacs mode to clear the screen.
07-02-26  A bug in which setting a variable readonly in a subshell would
	  cause an unset error when the subshell completed has been fixed. 
07-02-19  The format with printf uses the new = flag to center the output.
07-02-19  A bug in which ksh93 did not allow multibyte characters in
	  identifier names has been fixed.
07-02-19  A bug introduced in ksh93 that causes global compound variable
	  definitions inside functions to exit with "no parent" has been fixed.
07-02-19  A bug in which using compound commands in process redirection
	  arguments would give syntax errors <(...) and >(...) has been fixed.
07-01-29  A bug which caused the shell to core dump which can occur when a
	  built-in exits without closing files that it opens has been fixed.
07-01-26  A bug in which ~(E) in patterns containing  that are not inside ()
	  has been fixed.

06-12-29  --- Release ksh93s  ---
06-12-29  A bug in which the value of IFS could be changed after a command
	  substitution has been fixed. 
06-12-22  /dev/(tcp|udp|sctp)/HOST/SEVRICE now handles IPv6 addresses on
	  systems that provide getaddrinfo(3).
06-12-19  A -v option was added to read.  With this option the value of
	  the first variable name argument will become the default value
	  when read from a terminal device. 
06-11-20  A bug in which "${foo[@]:1}}" expands a null argument (instead of
	  no argument), when foo[0] is not empty has been fixed. 
06-11-16  The discipline functions have been modified to allow each subscript
	  to act independently.  Currently the discipline function will not
	  be called when called from a discipline function of the same variable.
06-11-14  A bug which could cause a core dump if a file descriptor for
	  an internal file was closed from with a subshell has been fixed.
06-10-30  The redirections <# pattern, and <## pattern have been added.
	  Both seek forward to the beginning of the next line that contains
	  the pattern.  The <## form copies the skipped portion to standard
	  output.
06-10-26  On systems that support stream control transport, the virtual file
	  name /dev/sctp/host/port can now be used to establish connections.
06-10-26  The printf modifier # when used with d produces units in thousands
	  with a single letter suffix added.  The modifier # when used with
	  the i specification provides units of 1024 with a two letter suffix.
06-10-24  The value of $! is now set to the process id of a job put
	  into the background with the bg command as required by POSIX.
06-10-23  A bug in which the value of $! was affected by a background
	  job started from a subshell has been fixed.
06-10-23  A bug in ${var:offset:len} in multibyte locales has been fixed.
06-10-15  The remaining math functions from C99 were added for any system
	  that supports them.
06-10-13  The klockwork.com software detected a few coding errors that
	  have been fixed.
06-10-12  A bug when skipping over `...` with ${x:=`...`} when x is set
	  has been fixed.
06-10-11  A bug in process floating constants produced by the %a format
	  of printf has been fixed.
06-10-06  A bug in which IFS was not being restored correctly in some
	  cases after a subshell has been fixed.
06-10-06  A bug in which pipefail was not detecting some failures in
	  pipelines with 3 or more states has been fixed.
06-10-03  A bug in the processing of >(...) with builtins which could
	  cause the builtin to hang has been fixed.
06-10-03  A bug in the for loop optimizer which causes >(...) process
	  substitution to be ignored has been fixed.
06-09-17  The -a option was added to typeset for indexed arrays.  This
	  is only needed when using the ([subscript]=value ...) form.
06-09-06  The showme option was added.  Each simple command not beginning
	  with a redirection and not occurring with in the while, until, if,
	  select condition can be preceded by a semi-colon which will
	  be ignored when showme is off.  When showme is on, any command
	  preceded by a colon will be traced but not executed.
06-08-16  As a new feature, a leading ~(N) on a pattern has no effect 
	  except when used for file expansion.  In this case if not
	  matches are found, the pattern is replaced by nothing rather
	  than itself.
06-08-11  A bug in the expansion of ${.sh.match[i]:${#.shmatch[i]}} has
	  been fixed.
06-08-10  The read builtin options -n and -N have been modified to treat
          the size as characters rather than bytes unless storing into a
	  binary (typeset -B) variable.
06-07-27  When the here document operator << is followed directly by a #
	  rather than a -, the first line of the here-document determines
	  how much whitespace is removed for each line.
06-07-26  A bug in the C-shell history (enabled with set -H) in which the
	  history event !$ was not processed has been fixed.
06-07-21  A bug on some systems in which assigning PATH on a command line
	  would not take effect has been fixed.
06-07-20  Add ksh93 and rksh93 as allowable names for ksh binaries.
06-07-20  Removed the SHOPT_OO compilation option which was only partially
	  implemented.
06-07-20  The ability to use egrep, grep, and fgrep expressions within
	  shell patterns has been documented.
06-07-17  A bug with arithmetic command expressions for locales in which
	  the comma is a thousands separator has been fixed. 
06-07-13  The default HISTSIZE was increased from 128 to 512.
06-07-13  A multibyte problem with locales that use shift codes has been fixed.
06-06-23  A number of bug fixes for command, file, and variable completion
	  have been mode.
06-06-20  Floating point division by zero now yields the constant Inf or -Inf
	  and floating functions with invalid arguments yield NaN. 
06-06-20  The floating point constants Inf and NaN can be used in arithmetic
	  expressions.
06-06-20  The functions isinf(), isnan(), tanhl() have been added for
	  arithmetic expressions.
06-06-13  Internal change to use ordering for variables instead of hashing
	  to speed up prefix matching.
06-06-13  A window between fork/exec in which a signal could get lost
	  and cause a program to hang has been eliminated
06-06-13  A bug in edit completion with quoted strings has been fixed.
06-06-07  The restricted options can now be enabled by set as well as on
	  the command line.  Once set, it can not be disabled.
06-06-04  Modified built-in binding so that for systems for which /bin
          and /usr/bin are the same, a builtin bound to /bin will get
	  selected when either /bin or /usr/bin is scanned.
06-06-04  Added literal-next character processing for emacs/gmacs mode. 
	  This change is not compatible with earlier versions of ksh93
          and ksh88 when the stty lnext is control-v.  The sequence
	  escape-control-v will display the shell version.
06-05-31  Modified emacs and vi mode so that entering a TAB after a partial
	  TAB completion, generates a listing of possible completions.
	  After the second TAB, a number followed by a TAB will perform
	  the completion with the corresponding item.
06-05-19  Modified arithmetic so that conversions to strings default to
	  the maximum number of precision digits.
06-05-16  Bug fixes for multibyte locales. 
06-05-10  The =~ operator was added to [[...]] and  [[ string ~= ERE ]]
	  is equivalent to [[ string == ~(E)ERE ]].
06-04-25  A bug in the vi edit mode which could cause the shell to core dump
	  when switching from emacs mode.
06-04-17  A bug in which using LANG or LC_ in assignment lists with builtins
	  did not restore the localed correctly has been fixed.
06-04-04  A bug in which discipline functions could not be added to variables
	  whose names started with .sh has been fixed.
06-03-28  The -s option to typeset was added to modify -i to indicate short
	  integers.
06-03-28  A bug in which variables assignment lists before functions
	  defined with function name were not passed on the functions
	  invoked by this function has been fixed. 
06-03-28  A bug in which name references defined within a function defined
	  with function  name could not be used with compound variables has
	  been fixed.
06-03-27  A bug in which read <&p (print >&p) would cause the coprocess input
	  (output) pipe to close before reading from (after writing to)
          it has been fixed.
06-02-28  A bug in which stopping a job created with the hist builtin command
	  would create a job that could not be restarted has been fixed.  

06-01-24  --- Release ksh93r  ---
06-01-24  A bug in which running commands with standard output closed would
	  not work as expected has been fixed.
06-01-23  A bug in which print -u<n> could fail when file descriptor <n> was
	  open for writing has been fixed.
06-01-19  The ?: arithmetic operator fixed to work when the operation after
	  the colon was an assignment.
05-12-24  A bug which could lead to a core dump when elements of a compound
	  variable were array elements, i.e. foo=(bar=(1 2)), has been fixed.
05-12-13  An arithmetic bug in which x+=y+=z was not working has been fixed. 
05-12-13  An arithmetic bug in which x||y was returning x when x was non-zero
	  rather than 1 has been fixed.
05-12-07  The aliases for integer and float have been changed to use attributes
	  -li and -lE to handle long long and long double types.
05-12-07  The histexpand (-H) option has been added which allows C-shell
	  style history expansions using the history character !.
05-12-07  The multiline option was added which changes that way the edit
	  modes handle lines longer than the window width.  Instead of
	  horizontal scrolling, multiple lines on the screen are used.
05-12-05  The whence builtin now returns an absolute pathname when the
          command is found in the current directory.
05-11-29  A bug which caused ksh -c '[[ ! ((' to core dump rather than
	  report a syntax error has been fixed.
05-11-29  A bug when reading fixed length records into typeset -b variables
	  which caused a zero byte to terminate the value has been fixed.
05-11-22  The ability to seek to an offset within a file has been added
	  with the new I/O redirection operators, <#  and >#.  Currently,
	  these redirection operators must be followed by ((expr))
	  but in a future release, it should be able to used to seek forward
	  to the specified shell pattern.  In addition $(n<#) expands to the
	  current byte offset for file descriptor n.
05-11-22  The .sh.match array variable is now set after each [[ ... ]]
	  pattern match.  Previously it was only set for substring matches.
05-10-17  A bug in which the library path variable could be prefixed
          with a directory when a .path file was not encountered in
	  the directory of the executable has been fixed.
05-09-15  A for/while loop optimizer bug in which $OPTIND was not
	  correctly expanded has been fixed.
05-09-05  A bug in which a history command that invoked a history
	  command could go into an infinite loop has been fixed.
05-08-31  In the case that IFS contains to adjacent new-lines so that
	  new-line is not treated as a space delimiter, only a single
	  new-line is deleted at the end of a command substitution.
05-08-19  When a tilde substitution expands to the / directory and is
	  followed by a /, it is replaced by the empty string.
05-08-16  A bug in which n<&m did not synchronize m has been fixed.
05-08-16  A bug in which process substitution  ( <() and >() ) was not
	  working within for and while loops has been fixed.
05-07-24  A bug in which the pattern ~(E)(foo|bar) was treated as a syntax
	  error has been fixed.
05-07-24  A bug in completion with <n>=, where n was the one of the
	  previous selection choices has been fixed.
05-07-21  A bug with multibyte input when no edit mode was specified which
	  caused the input line to shift left/right has been fixed.
05-06-24  A race condition which could cause the exit status to get lost
	  on some fast systems has been fixed.
05-06-21  A bug in which nested patterns of the form {m,n}(pat) would cause
	  syntax errors has been fixed.
05-06-21  A bug in the macro expander has been fixed which could cause a
          syntax error for an expansion of the form ${x-$(...)} when
	  x is set and the command substitution contained certain strings.
05-06-08  On systems for which echo does not do System V style  expansions,
	  the -e option was added to enable these expansion.
05-06-08  A bug in which ${var op pattern} to not work when inside an
	  arithmetic expression has been fixed.
05-05-23  An extension to shell patterns that allows matching of nested
	  groups while skipping over quoted strings has been added.
05-05-18  A bug in which the line number for errors was not correct for
          functions loaded from FPATH has been fixed.
05-04-18  A bug in which the exit status $? is not set when a trap triggered
	  by the [[...]] command is executed has been fixed.
05-04-08  Redirection operators can be directly preceded with {varname}
	  with no intervening space, where varname is a variable name which
	  allows the shell to select a file descriptor > 10 and store it
	  into varname.
05-04-08  SHOPT_CMDLIB_BLTIN=1 now includes <cmdlist.h> generated table.
05-04-07  [[ -o ?option ]] is true if "option" is a supported option.
05-04-05  A bug in handling file completion with spaces in the names
          has been fixed.
05-03-25  The SIGWINCH signal is caught by default to keeps the LINES and
	  COLUMNS variables in sync with the actual window size.
05-03-25  Building ksh with SHOPT_REMOTE=1 causes ksh to set --rc if stdin is
	  a socket (presumably part of a remote shell invocation.)
05-03-25  Building ksh with SHOPT_SYSRC=1 causes interactive ksh to source
	  /etc/ksh.kshrc (if it exists) before sourcing the $ENV file.
05-03-25  {first..last[..incr][%fmt]} sequences added to brace expansions
	  when braceexpand is enabled.
05-03-03  A bug where a SIGCHLD interrupt could cause a fifo open to fail has
	  been fixed.
05-02-25  A bug in which a builtin command run in the background could
	  keep a file descriptor open which could cause a foreground
	  process to hang has been fixed.
05-02-24  A bug where builtin library commands (e.g., date and TZ) failed to
	  detect environment variable changes has been fixed.
05-02-22  The read builtin and word splitting are now consistent with respect
	  to IFS -- both treat IFS as field delimiters.
05-02-22  The read builtin no longer strips off trailing delimiters that
	  are not space characters when there are fewer variables than fields.
05-02-17  A builtin bug on systems where dlsym(libcmd) returns link-time
	  bindings has been fixed.
05-02-12  A bug in which the lib_init() function for .paths BUILTIN_LIB
	  libraries was not called has been fixed.
05-02-06  A bug on some systems in which moving the write end of a co-process
	  to a numbered file descriptor could cause it to close has been fixed. 
05-02-06  A bug in the vi-edit mode in which the character under the cursor
	  was not deleted in some cases with the d% directive has been fixed.
05-02-06  A bug where external builtin stdout/stderr redirection corrupted
          stdout has been fixed.
05-02-04  A bug where times formatting assumed CLK_TCK==60 has been fixed.

05-01-11  --- Release ksh93q  ---
05-01-11  A bug in the integral divide by zero check has been fixed.
05-01-11  The -l option has been added to read /etc/profile and
	  $HOME/.profile, if they exist, before the first command.
05-01-11  An argument parsing bug that caused `kill -s x -- n' to fail has
	  been fixed.
05-01-11  The .paths file, introduced in ksh93m, which can appear in
	  any directory in PATH, now allows a line of the form 'BUILTIN_LIB=.'
	  When a command is searched for this directory, and the full path
	  matches the path of the built-in version of the command (listed
	  by the 'builtin' command) then the built-in version of the command
	  is used.  When ksh is built with SHOPT_CMDLIB_DIR=1 then all libcmd
	  functions become builtins with the '/opt/ast/bin/' directory prefix.
05-01-10  A bug in which a nameref to a compound name caused a core dump has
	  been fixed.
05-01-09  A bug in which some SIGCHLD interrupts (from child processes exiting)
	  caused a fatal print/echo error diagnostic has been fixed.
04-12-24  A bug in which some SIGCHLD interrupts (from child processes exiting)
          corrupted the internal process/job list, sometimes causing the shell
	  to hang, has been fixed.
04-12-01  A bug in which typeset -Fn truncated less than n digits for large
	  numbers has been fixed.
04-11-25  A bug in which standard error could be closed after a redirection
	  to /dev/stderr has been fixed.
04-11-17  A bug in which an expansion of the form ${array[@]:3} could expand
          to ${array[0]} when ${array[3]} was not set has been fixed.
04-10-22  The -E or -orc command line option reads ${ENV-$HOME/.kshrc} file.
04-10-22  `-o foo' equivalent to `+o nofoo', `-o nobar' equivalent to `+o bar'.
          `--foo' equivalent to `-o foo', `--nofoo' equivalent to `+o foo'
04-10-05  The .paths file, introduced in ksh93m, which can appear in
	  any directory in PATH, now allows a line of the form
	  'BUILTIN_LIB=libname'.  When a command is searched for this directory,
	  the shared library named by libname will first be searched for a
	  built-in version of the command.
04-09-03  <<< here documents now handle quotes in the word token correctly. 
04-08-08  The maximum size for read -n and and read -N was increased from
	  4095 to 32M.
04-08-04  printf %q was modified so that if an no operand was supplied, no
	  no output would be generated rather than a quoted empty string.
04-08-01  The -n and -N options of the read builtin has been modified
	  when reading variables with the binary attribute so that the
	  data is stored directly rather than through assignment.
04-08-01  The shcomp command has been modified to process alias commands
	  under some conditions.
04-07-31  The .sh.match variable added in ksh93l, now works like other
	  indexed arrays.
04-07-08  A loop optimizer bug which occurs when typeset is used in
	  a for or while loop inside a function has been fixed.
04-06-24  The number of subexpressions in a pattern was increased to 64
	  from the current number of 20.
04-06-17  The -t option to read was modified to allow seconds to be
	  specified as any arithmetic expression rather than just
	  an integral number of seconds, for example even -t 'sin(.5)'
	  is now valid.
04-06-16  Two small memory leak problems were fixed.
04-06-15  A bug in ${var/pattern/"string"} which occurred when string
	  contained pattern matching characters has been fixed.
04-05-08  printf $'%d produced an erroneous error message and has
	  been fixed.
04-05-24  A bug in which an associative array without any elements could
	  cause a core dump when a script with an associative array with
	  the same name was declared in a script invoked by name has
	  been fixed.
04-05-11  A bug in which an exec statement could close the script that
	  is being processed in a script that is run by name causing
	  a failure has been fixed.
04-04-28  If the first character of assignment to an integer variable was 0,
          the variable had been treated as unsigned.  This behavior was
          undocumented and has been removed.
04-04-05  A bug in which the positioning of standard input could be incorrect
	  after reading from standard input from a subshell has been fixed.
04-03-30  A bug in the for loop optimizer which in rare cases could cause
	  memory corruption has been fixed.
04-03-29  The preset alias source='command .' has been added.
04-03-29  A bug introduced in ksh93p on some systems in which invoked by
	  name with #! on the first line would not get the signals handling
	  initialized correctly has been fixed. 
04-03-29  A bug introduced in ksh93p in which a HUP signal received by
	  a shell that is a session group leader was not passed down to
	  its children has been fixed.

04-02-28  --- Release ksh93p  ---
04-02-28  The ability to apply an append discipline to any variable has
	  been added.
04-02-14  A bug in which the exportall option (set -a) would cause incorrect
	  results for arrays has been fixed.
04-02-02  A bug in which an exported array would pass more than
	  the first element to a script invoked by name has been fixed.
04-02-02  A bug on some systems in which name=value pairs preceding a script
	  invoked by name was not getting passed to the script has been fixed.
04-01-20  A bug in which an unset discipline function could cause a core
	  dump on some systems has been fixed.
04-01-12  A bug in which a continue or break called outside a loop from
	  inside a function defined with name() syntax could affect 
	  the invoking function has been fixed.
04-01-08  If a command name begins with ~, only filename completion will be
	  attempted rather than pathname completion using the builtin editors. 
04-01-08  A bug in the vi edit mode in which the wrong repeat count on
	  multiple word replacements with the . directive has been fixed.
04-01-06  Backspace characters are now handled correctly in prompt strings.
04-01-06  The getopts builtin has been modified to accept numerical
	  arguments of size long long on systems that support this.
04-01-06  A bug in which unsetting all elements of an associative array
	  would cause it to be treated as an indexed array has been fixed.
03-12-15  A bug in which a quoted string ending with an unescaped $ would
	  delete the ending $ in certain cases has been fixed.
03-12-05  A bug in which the shell could hang when set -x tracing a command
	  when an invalid multibyte character is encountered has been fixed. 
03-12-05  On some systems, if the KEYBD trap is set, then commands that use
	  the meta key were not processed until return was hit.  This
	  has been fixed.
03-12-05  A problem which occurred when the login shell was not a group
	  leader that could cause it to fail has been fixed.
03-12-05  A problem in which a shell could core dump after receiving a signal
	  that should cause it to terminate while it was in the process
	  of acquiring more space has been fixed.
03-12-05  If ENV is not specified, the shell will default to $HOME/.kshrc
	  for interactive shells.
03-11-21  A bug introduced in ksh93o in which the DEBUG trap could get
	  disabled after it triggered has been fixed. 
03-11-04  A bug in which using arithmetic prefix operators ++ or -- on a
	  non-lvalue could cause a core dump has been fixed.
03-11-04  A bug in which leading zeros were stripped from variable
	  expansions within arithmetic computation to avoid being treated
	  as octal constants when they should not have, has been fixed.
03-10-08  A bug introduced in ksh93o in which a large here document inside
	  a function definition could get corrupted has been fixed.
03-09-22  A bug in which the .get discipline function was not being
	  called when a string variable was implicitly referenced from
	  within a numerical expression has been fixed.
03-09-22  A bug in which a script without a leading #! could get executed
	  by /bin/sh rather than the current shell on some systems has
	  been fixed.
03-09-12  To improve conformance with ksh88, leading zeros will be ignored
	  when getting the numerical value of a string variable so that
	  they will not be treated as octal constants.
03-09-03  The builtin kill command now processes obsolete invocations
	  such as kill -1 -pid.
03-09-02  The restriction on modifying FPATH in a restricted shell (sh -r)
	  has been documented.
03-09-02  The restricted shell (sh -r) has been modified to disallow
	  executing command -p.
03-08-07  A bug in which the KEYBD trap was not being invoked when
	  characters with the 8th bit set has been fixed.
03-08-02  A parser bug introduced in ksh93o which caused the character
	  after () in a Posix function definition to be skipped 
	  when reading from standard input has been fixed.
03-08-01  A bug in which "${foo#pattern}(x)" treated (x) as if it were
	  part of the pattern has been fixed.
03-08-01  The command -x option has been modified so that any trailing
	  arguments that do expand to a single word will be included
	  on each invocation, so that commands like command -x mv * dir
	  work as expected.

03-07-20  --- Release ksh93o+  ---
03-07-20  A bug in which could cause memory corruption when a posix
	  function invoked another one has been fixed.
03-07-15  A bug in which a file descriptor>2 could be closed before
	  executing a script has been fixed.
03-07-15  A parsing error for <() and >() process substitutions inside
	  command substitution has been fixed.
03-07-15  A parsing error for patterns of the form {...}(...) when
	  used inside ${...} has been fixed.
03-07-15  An error in which expanding an indexed array inside a compound
	  variable could cause a core dump has been fixed.
03-07-15  A bug in which under on rare occassions a job completion interrupt
	  could cause to core dump has been fixed.
03-06-26  A bug in which process substitution embedded within command
	  substitution would generate a syntax error has been fixed.
03-96-23  A bug in which ${@:offset:len} could core dump when there
	  were no arguments has been fixed.
03-96-23  A bug in which ${X[@]:offset:len} could core dump when X
	  was unset has been fixed.
03-06-22  The -x option was added to the command builtin.  If this
	  option is on, and the number of arguments would exceed ARG_MAX,
	  the command will be invoked multiple times with a subset of
	  the arguments.  For example, with alias grep='command -x grep,
	  any number of arguments can be specified.
03-06-14  A bug in which could cause a core dump on some systems with
	  vi and emacs editors with the MULTIBYTE option has been fixed.
03-06-06  A bug in which the shell could core dump when a script was
	  run from its directory, and the script name a symlink to a file
	  beginning with .., has been fixed.
03-06-05  A bug in which the shell could core dump when a child process
	  that it is unaware of terminates while it is calling malloc()
	  has been fixed.
03-06-02  An option named globstar (set -G) has been added.  When enabled,
	  during pathname expansion, any component that consists only of ** is
	  matches all files and any number of directory levels.
03-05-30  A bug in which the PATH search could give incorrect results when
	  run from directory foo and PATH contained .:foo:xxx has been fixed.
03-05-29  Some changes were made to the code that displays the prompt in edit 
	  mode to better handle escape sequences in the prompt.
03-05-27  I added = to the list of characters that mark the beginning of
	  a word for edit completion so that filenames in assignments
	  can be completed.
03-05-20  A bug in which read -N could hang on some systems when reading
	  from a terminal or a pipe has been fixed.
03-05-19  A bug in which the output of uname from a command substitution
	  would go to the standard output of the invoking command when
	  uname was invoked with a non-standard option has been fixed.
03-05-19  A job control bug which would cause the shell to exit because 
	  it hadn't take back the terminal has been fixed.  The bug
	  could occur when running a function that contained a pipeline
	  whose last element was a function.
03-05-19  A job control timing bug introduced in ksh93o on some systems
	  which could cause a pipeline to hang if the first component
	  completed quickly has been fixed.
03-05-13  The read builtin has been modified so that the builtin editors
	  will not overwrite output from a previous incomplete line. 
03-05-13  A bug in which the name of an identifier could have the string
	  .sh. prefixed to it after expanding a variable whose name begins
	  with .sh. has been fixed.
03-05-13  A bug in the expansion of $var for compound variables in which
	  some elements would not be output when the name was a prefix
	  of another name in the compound variable has been fixed.
03-05-08  The last item in the ksh93o release on 03-01-02 has been
	  altered slightly to preserve the leading 0's when the
	  preceding character is a digit.  Thus, with typeset -LZ3 x=10,
	  $(( 1$x)) will be 1010 whereas $(( $x) will be 10.
03-04-25  A bug in which if x is a name reference, then nameref y=x.foo
	  did not follow x has been fixed.

03-03-18  --- Release ksh93o  ---
03-03-18  A -N unary operator was added to test and [[...]] which returns
	  true if the file exists and the file has been modified since it
	  was last read.
03-03-18  The TIMEFORMAT variable was added to control the format for
	  the time compound command.  The formatting description is
	  described in the man page.
03-03-06  A -N n option was added to read which causes exactly n bytes
	  to be read unlike -n n which causes at most n bytes to be read.
03-03-03  Three new shell variables were added.  The variable .sh.file
	  stores the full pathname of the file that the current command
	  was found in.  The variable .sh.fun names the current function
	  that is running.  The variable .sh.subshell contains the depth
	  of the current subshell or command substitution.
03-03-03  When the DEBUG trap is executed, the current command line after
	  expansions is placed in the variable .sh.command.  The trap
	  is also now triggered before each iteration of a for, select,
	  and case command and before each assignment and redirection.
03-02-28  Function definitions are no longer stored in the history file so
	  that set -o nolog no longer has any meaning.
03-02-28  All function definitions can be displayed with typeset -f not
	  just those stored in the history file.  In addition, typeset +f
	  displays the function name followed by a comment containing the
	  line number and the path name for the file that defined this function.
03-02-28  A bug in which the value of $LINENO was not correct when executing
	  command contained inside mult-line command substitutions has been
	  fixed.
03-02-19  Since some existing ksh88 scripts use the undocumented and
	  unintended ability to insert a : in front of the % and # parameter
	  expansion operators, ksh93 was modified to accept :% as equivalent
	  to % and :# as equivalent to # with ${name op word}.
03-02-14  A bug which could cause a core dump when reading from standard
	  error when standard error was a pty has been fixed.
03-02-14  The shell arithmetic was modified to use long double on systems
	  that provide this data type.
03-02-09  A bug in which a function located in the first directory in FPATH
	  would not be found when the last component of PATH was . and the
	  current directory was one of the directories in PATH has been fixed.
03-02-07  The trap and kill builtin commands now accept a leading SIG prefix
	  on the signal names as documented.
03-02-05  A bug in the expansion of ${var/$pattern}, when pattern contained
	  \[ has been fixed.
03-02-05  A bug in which .sh.match[n], n>0, was not being set for substring
	  matches with % and %% has been fixed.
03-01-15  A bug in which getopts did not work for numerical arguments specified
	  as n#var in the getopts string has been fixed.
03-01-09  A bug in which using ${.sh.match} multiple times could lead to
	  a memory exception has been fixed.
03-01-06  A bug in the expansion of ${var/pattern/$string} in the case that
	  $string contains \digit has been fixed. 
03-01-02  A -P option was added for systems such as Solaris 8 that support
	  profile shell.
03-01-02  For backward compatibility with ksh88, arithmetic expansion
	  with ((...)) and let has been modified so that if x is a zero-filled
	  variable, $x will not be treated as an octal constant.

02-12-05  --- Release ksh93n+  ---
02-11-30  A bug that can show up in evaluating arithmetic statements that
	  are in an autoloaded function when the function is autoload from
	  another function has been fixed.
02-11-30  An optimization bug in which an expansion of the form ${!name.@},
	  which occurred inside a for or a while loop, when name is a name
	  reference, has been fixed.
02-11-18  A bug in which modifying array variables in a subshell could leave
	  side effects in the parent shell environment has been fixed.
02-11-18  A memory leak when unsetting an associative array has been fixed.
02-11-14  The code to display compound objects was rewritten to make
	  it easier for runtime extensions to reuse this code.
02-11-14  A change was made to allow runtime builtins to be notified when
	  a signal is received so that cleanup can be performed.
02-10-31  User applications can now trap the ALRM signal.  Previously,
	  the ALRM signal was used internally and could not be used
	  by applications. 
02-10-31  A bug in which signals received while reading from a coprocess
	  for which traps were set was not handled correctly has been fixed.
02-10-31  A bug in which a file opened with exec inside a subshell could
	  be closed before the subshell completed has been fixed.
02-10-21  A bug in which setting PATH or FPATH inside a function might not
	  take effect has been fixed.
02-10-21  A bug which could cause a core dump when a local SECONDS variable
	  is defined in a function has been fixed.
02-10-15  A bug in which the associate array name operator ${!array[@]}
	  could return the same name multiple times has been fixed.
02-10-15  A bug in which the zero'th element of an associative array was
	  not getting set when an assignment was made without a subscript
	  specified has been fixed.

02-09-30  --- Release ksh93n  ---
02-09-30  The maximum indexed array size was increased to 16Megs.
02-09-30  A bug which could cause a core dump when changing attributes
	  of associative array has been fixed.
02-09-30  A bug in which exporting an array variable would not export the
	  0-th element has been fixed.
02-09-30  A bug in which an array assignment of the form a=($a ...) would unset
	  'a' before the right hand side was evaluated has been fixed.
02-09-27  A bug in which the error message for ${var?message} when var was
	  null or unset did not contain the variable name var has been fixed.
02-09-27  A bug in which closing file descriptors 0 through 2 could
	  cause a subsequent here document to fail has been fixed. 
02-09-14  A bug in whence which occurs when the specified name contained
	  a / has been fixed.
02-09-14  A bug in the parser for strings of the form name$((expr))=value
	  has been fixed.
02-09-14  A for loop optimization bug in which the number of elements in
	  an array was treated as an invariant has been fixed.
02-09-09  A bug in which redirection or closing of a file descriptor between
	  3 and 9 could cause a subsequent here document to fail has been
	  fixed. 
02-09-09  A bug in which a background job was not removed from the job list
	  when a subshell completed has been fixed, for example (prog&). 
02-09-03  A bug in which an assignment of the form name=(integer x=3)
	  could be interpretted as an array assignment rather than a
	  compound variable assignment has been fixed.
02-08-19  A command completion bug which occurred on file systems that
	  are case insensitive has been fixed.
02-08-19  A bug which could lead to an exception on some systems (for
	  example FREEBSD) which occurred when setting PATH has been fixed.
02-08-11  A bug in arithmetic rounding in which a value input as a decimal
	  string would output as a rounded version of the string has
	  been fixed.
02-08-11  A bug in which the last character could be deleted from shell
	  traces and from whence when called from a multibyte locale
	  has been fixed.
02-08-01  A bug which could cause a core dump to occur when a shell script
	  is executed while a coprocess is running that has closed the
	  output pipe has been fixed.
02-08-01  A bug in which command completion in multibyte mode could
	  corrupt memory for long command lines has been fixed.

02-06-17  --- Release ksh93n-  ---
02-06-17  A bug in which user defined macros could cause a core dump in
	  with MULTIBYE mode has been fixed.
02-06-17  A bug in which printf format specifiers of the form %2$s were causing
	  a core dump has been fixed.
02-06-17  A bug in which setting stty to noecho mode did not prevent the
	  echoing of characters by ksh when emacs or viraw mode
	  was enabled has been fixed.
02-06-17  A bug in which background job completion could cause the sleep
	  builtin to terminate prematurely has been fixed.
02-06-17  A bug in which the shell could core dump if getopts was called
	  when the OPTIND variable contained a negative value has been fixed. 
02-06-10  The edit mode prompt has been modified to handle escape sequences.  
02-06-10  A bug which occurred for interactive shells in which the builtin
	  cat command was used in command substitution on a file whose
	  size was larger than PIPE_BUF has been fixed.
02-06-10  A bug in which the trap on ERR was not being processed when
	  set inside a function has been fixed.
02-06-07  A bug in which function definitions could cause the history count
	  to be decremented by one (and even become negative) has been fixed.
02-06-05  A bug in read in which share mode could be enabled has been fixed.
02-05-28  A bug which could occur when the last command of a script was
	  a case statement and the action selected ended in ;& instead of ;;
	  has been fixed.
02-05-23  A bug with unary + introduced in ksh93k has been fixed.
02-05-07  A bug in substitutions of the form ${var/pattern/string} in which
	  a backslash was inserted in the replacement string when it contained
	  a special pattern character has been fixed.
02-05-01  A bug in the emacs edit mode which occurred in versions compiled
	  for multibyte character sets which occurred when a repeated search
	  was requested after a long line had been returned for the previous
	  search has been fixed.
02-04-02  vi and emacs edit modes were modified so that tab completion is
	  disabled when invoked from the read built-in.

02-03-26  --- Release ksh93m+  ---
02-03-26  A bug in which  was not handled correctly when used in file
	  expansion has been fixed.
02-02-18  A bug in which lines beginning with a # were deleted from here
	  documents when the here-document delimiter was followed by
	  a comment has been fixed.
02-12-06  An optimization bug in which ${!x[@]) was treated as invariant in
	  a for loop has been fixed.
02-02-06  A bug in which the ERR trap is not cleared for a script invoked
	  by name from within a function has been fixed.
02-01-08  A bug in which a shell script executed from within a subshell
	  could cause this script to have an invalid pointer leading
	  to a memory fault has been fixed. 
02-01-07  Added here documents of the form <<< word (as per zsh) which
	  is equivalent to << delimordelim.
02-01-07  A bug in which the first word of a compound assignment,
	  x=(word ...), was treated as a reserved word has been fixed.
02-01-07  A bug in the handling of  when noglob was enabled and a
	  substitution of the form ${word op pattern} occurred in the
	  same word has been fixed.
02-01-07  A compilation option, CMDLIB_BLTIN in the file OPTION, has
	  been added.  When this options is set, all commands implemented
	  in libcmd become shell builtin commands by default.
02-01-07  A bug in which builtin foo, where foo is already a builtin
	  would result in the builtin foo getting removed has been fixed. 
02-01-07  A bug which the shell executed a command found in the current
	  directory when PATH have no valid directories has been fixed.
01-11-28  The value of $? was not being set when called with exit.
01-11-28  If the last command was of the form (...) and a trap on EXIT or
	  ERR was set, and the command inside () modified the trap, then
	  the original trap wasn't executed.
01-11-26  The value for 0 is now preceded by the base number when
	  the base was not 10.
01-11-26  The default has compilation mode has been changes so that
	  viraw mode will always be on.

01-10-31  --- Release ksh93m  ---
01-10-31  A for loop optimizer bug for subshells contained withing for
	  loops has been fixed.
01-10-16  typeset without arguments no longer outputs variable names
	  that do not have any attributes that are set.
01-10-16  A bug introduced in ksh93l in which assignments specified with
	  the exec built-in were not being expanded properly has been
	  fixed.
01-10-11  An optimization bug in which ${!x) was treated as invariant in
	  a for loop has been fixed.
01-10-11  Unsigned integer variables in bases other than 10 are printed now
	  expand in that base with the base prefix.
01-10-10  A number of typos in the self generating man pages for shell
	  built-ins have been fixed.
01-10-04  The self generated man pages for hist and fc were not working
	  correctly and have been fixed.
01-10-03  Yet another optimizer bug in which shell patterns were
	  treated as invariants has been fixed.
01-09-27  Two bugs relating to multibyte history searches and to find
	  have been fixed.
01-09-27  A bug introduced in ksh93k in which the PATH searching was
	  not restored after running a command with an assignment list 
	  has been fixed.
01-09-26  A bug in which a zero filled field was treated as octal when
	  converted to integer has been fixed.
01-09-26  Yet another bug in the optimization of for loops related to
	  recursive functions with break or continue statements has been fixed.
01-09-25  The exponentiation operator ** was added to the shell arithmetic
	  evaluation.  It has higher precedence than * and is left
	  associative.
01-09-25  The code was modified to use the ast multibyte macros
	  and functions for handing multibyte locales.
01-09-25  The expansion ${parameter:offset:length} now handles negative
	  offsets which cause offsets to be measured from the end.
01-09-25  Some spelling errors in the documentation were corrected.
01-09-24  The /dev/tcp/host/port and /dev/udp/host/port now allow
	  the ports to be specified by service name. 
01-09-24  The change staring with ksh93g in which the the appropriate
	  library path variable is prepended with a corresponding library
	  directory has been modified.  With the new method, only the
	  library path defined in the file named .paths in the directory
	  where the executable is found will be modified.  See the
	  man page for more details.
01-09-23  The .fpath file (see ksh93h) is no longer looked for in each
	  directory on the path to locate function directories.  The
	  file named .paths is used instead.
01-09-23  A bug in which IFS was not being restored after being changed in
	  a subshell has been fixed.
01-09-16  With the vi and emacs edit modes, after a list of command
	  or functions is generated with = or M-= respectively,
	  any element from the list can be pasted on the command line
	  by preceding the = or M-= with a numeric parameter specifying
	  the position on the list.
01-09-16  A bug in ksh93l caused command completion not to find aliases
	  and functions.  Command listing from the edit mode was presented
	  in reverse order.  This has been fixed.
01-09-13  Another bug in the optimization of for loops related to subshells
	  when traps were set has been fixed.
01-09-07  A change in ksh93l caused brace expansion to stop working
	  and this has been fixed.
01-09-04  A bug introduced in ksh93k in which an arithmetic statement
	  within a function that used name references did not follow the
	  reference has been fixed.
01-09-04  A bug introduced in ksh93l in which export -p did not prefix
	  each export with the word export has been fixed.
01-08-29  A bug in multibyte input which occurred when a partial multibyte
	  character was received has been fixed.
01-08-29  A bug introduced in ksh93l which could cause a core dump
	  when an assignment list containing PATH is specified inside
	  command substitution has been fixed.
01-08-09  Another bug in the optimization of for loops in ksh93l caused
	  errors in recursive functions using local variables that
	  contained for loops has been fixed.
01-07-27  A bug in which IFS would be unset after a command substitution
	  inside a here document has been fixed.
01-07-26  To conform to the POSIX standard, if you invoked ksh name,
	  and name does not contain a /,  it will first try to run
	  one in the current directory whether it is executable or not
	  before doing a path search for an executable script.  Earlier
	  versions first checked for an executable script using the
	  PATH variable.
01-07-23  A bug in which unset -f invoked in a subshell could unset a
	  function defined in the parent has been fixed.
01-07-16  A bug in the optimization of for loops in ksh93l caused
	  name references to be treated as invariants has been fixed.
01-07-09  A bug in which a discipline function applied to a local variable
	  could cause a shell exception has been fixed.  Discipline
	  functions can only be specified for global variables. 

01-06-18  --- Release ksh93l  ---
01-06-18  A bug in assigning integers larger than can be represented as
	  long integers to floating point variables has been fixed.
01-06-18  A bug in the handling of unsigned integers (typeset -ui) has
	  been fixed.
01-06-04  The evaluation of the PS1 prompt no longer effects the value
	  of the $? variable.
01-06-01  A small memory leak from subshells has been fixed.
01-05-22  A bug in which attributes for variables that did not have
	  values would be lost after a subshell has been fixed.
01-05-22  The %R format has been added to convert a shell pattern into
	  an extended regular expression.
01-05-22  The escape sequences \, X, \C[.collating-element.], and
	  \x{hex} have been added to ASCII-C strings and to printf format
	  strings.
01-05-20  Patterns of the form {n}(pattern) and {m,n}(pattern) are now
	  recognized.  The first form matches exactly n of pattern whereas,
	  the second form matches from m to n instances of pattern.
01-05-20  The shell allows *-(pattern), +-(pattern),  ?-(pattern),
	  {m,n}-(pattern}, and @-(pattern) to cause the minimal
	  match of pattern to be selected whenever possible rather
	  than the maximal (greedy) match. 
01-05-20  The character class [:word:] has been added to patterns.
	  The word class is the union of [:alnum:] and the character _.
01-05-20  Inside (...) pattern groups, the  character is now treated
	  specially even when in an enclosing character class.  The
	  sequences, \w, \d, \s are equivalent to the character classes
	  word, digit, and space respectively.  The sequences \W, \D,
	  and \S are their complement sets. 
01-05-20  The shell now recognizes pattern groups of the form
	  ~(options:pattern) where options or :pattern can be omitted.
	  Options use the letters + and - to enable and disable options
	  respectively.  The option letters g (greedy), i (ignore case)
	  are used to cause maximal matching and to cause case
	  insensitive matching respectively.  If :pattern is also
	  specified, these options are only in effect while this
	  pattern is being processed.  Otherwise, these options remain
	  in effect until the end of the pattern group that they are contained
	  in or until another ~(...) is encountered.  These pattern groups
	  are not counted with respect to group numbering.
01-05-14  When edit completion, expansion, or listing occurs in the
	  middle of a quoted string, the leading quote is ignored when
	  performing the completion, expansion, or listing.
01-05-14  A small memory leak from subshells has been fixed.
01-05-10  A bug in which open files were not restored after a subshell
	  that had used exec to replace a file has been fixed. 
01-05-10  Redirection to a null file name now generates an error message. 
01-05-09  The shell now rejects some invalid parameter substitutions that
	  were previously processed in undefined ways.
01-05-09  A bug in which the output of select was not flushed before the
	  read when input did not come from the terminal has been fixed. 
01-05-08  A bug in which job ids would not be freed for interactive shells
	  when subshells ran built-ins in the background has been fixed.
01-05-08  The FPATH variable now requires an explicit . to cause the
	  current directory to be treated as a function directory. 
01-05-08  A bug in read -n when echo mode was disabled has been fixed.
01-05-07  A bug in which function definitions could be listed as part
	  of the history has been fixed.
01-04-30  This release uses a new and often much faster pattern matcher than
	  earlier releases.
01-04-30  An optimizer now eliminates invariant parameter expansions from
	  for while and until loops.
01-04-30  The variable .sh.match is set after each pattern match (# % or /)
	  in a variable substitution.  The variable .sh.match is an
	  indexed array with element 0 being the complete match. 
	  The array is only valid until the next subsequent pattern
	  match or until the value of the variable changes which ever
	  comes first.
01-04-30  A self generating man page has been added to shcomp.  Also,
	  shcomp now stops compiling when it finds an exit or exec
	  command and copies the remainder so that it can be used
	  for standard input.
01-04-30  The shcomp command was modified so that it can work in an
	  EBCIDIC environment and that binary scripts are portable
	  across environments.
01-04-30  A bug in the handling of a trailing : in PATH has been fixed.
01-04-30  A bug in which the builtin version of a command would get invoked
	  even though the full pathname for the command was specified
	  has been fixed.
01-04-30  A bug in which read would loose the last character when
	  reading the last line of a file that did not contain a new-line
	  character has been fixed.
01-04-23  A bug on some systems in which in vi mode the end of file
	  character and end of line character could be swapped has
	  been fixed.
01-04-23  A bug on some systems in which invoking a shell script that
	  did not have execute permission could set the exit value to
	  127 rather than 126 has been fixed.
01-04-20  A bug in which read -n from a pipe would block if fewer than
	  n characters was received has been fixed.
01-04-09  A bug in which invalid patterns, for example, ) by itself,
	  was not treated as a string has been fixed so that if i=')',
	  then [[ $i == $i ]] is true.
01-04-09  The shell arithmetic now interprets C character constants.
01-04-09  A bug in which a non-zero return from a function defined
	  with the function reserved word did not trigger the ERR
	  trap or exit with set -e has been fixed.
01-04-02  A bug on some systems, in which characters above 127 were
	  not displayed correctly in vi or emacs edit mode has been fixed.
01-04-02  A bug on some systems, introduced in the 'k' point release, in
	  which the erase character in viraw mode was moving the cursor
	  to the left without erasing the character has been fixed.
01-04-02  On some systems the wcwith() function was returning a wrong
	  value for characters and caused characters to be displayed
	  incorrectly from the shell edit modes.  A work around for
	  this problem has been added. 
01-03-26  A bug in which valid scripts could produce syntax errors
	  when run with locales that considered characters such as "'"
	  to be space characters has been fixed.
01-03-20  A bug in which an syntax error in an arithmetic expression
	  entered interactively could cause the shell to go into
	  an infinite loop outputting the error message has been fixed.
01-03-10  ksh93 accepts -l as a synonym for -L in test on systems for
	  which /bin/test -l tests for symbolic links.
01-03-10  A bug in parsing scripts in which { and } are used in place of
	  in and esac in case statements embedded in compound commands
	  has been fixed.  Use of { and } for in and esac is obsolete.
01-03-06  A bug in which an argument of the form foo=bar was not
	  being passed correctly to a traced function whose name
	  was foo has been fixed.
01-03-02  Using $(trap -p name) did not print the name of the current
	  trap setting for trap name.
01-02-26  Exported floating point variables gave incorrect results
	  when passing them to ksh88.  This has been fixed.
01-02-25  A race condition in which a coprocess which completed too quickly
	  would not allow subsequent coprocesses to start has been fixed.
01-02-25  The 'g' format specifier is now handled by printf.  It had
	  inadvertently been omitted.
01-02-20  The + was not being displayed during an execution trace
	  with the += assignment operator.
01-02-19  The error message which occurs when the interpreter name
	  defined on the #! line does not exist is more informative.
01-02-19  A bug in which $0 would not be set correctly when a
	  script with #! was invoked by full pathname from the
	  directory of the script has been fixed.
01-02-19  A shell script did not always pick up tty mode changes
	  made by external commands such as stty which could
	  effect the behavior of read.
01-02-19  The -u, -g, and -k unary tests did not give the correct
	  results when used with negation and this has been fixed.

01-02-05  --- Release ksh93k+  ---
01-02-05  The sequence \<newline> inside $'...' was not incrementing
	  the line count and this has been fixed.
01-02-05  Modified expansion of "${@-}" so that if no arguments are set
	  it results in null string rather than nothing.
01-02-02  memory leak problem with local variables in functions fixed.
01-01-25  allow arithmetic expressions with float%int and treat them
	  as ((int)float)%int rather than as an error. 
01-01-19  read -n1 was not working and has been fixed.
01-01-17  ksh now handles the case in which a here document in command
	  substitution $() is terminated by the trailing ).  Previously,
	  a new-line was needed at the end of the delimiter word. 
01-01-02  A bug in which a KEYBD trap would cause a multi-line token
	  to be processed incorrectly has been fixed.
00-12-10  Arithmetic integer constants can now have L and U suffices. 
00-12-10  A bug in the processing of arithmetic expressions with compound
	  variables when the -n option is on has been fixed.
00-12-08  A bug in M-f and M-b from emacs mode has been fixed.  This
	  bug only occurs when ksh93 is compiled without MULTIBYTE enabled.
00-11-29  A bug in which jobs -p would yield 0 for background
	  jobs run in a script has been fixed.
00-11-21  A bug in integer arrays in which the number of elements is
	  incorrect when the ++ operator is applied to a non-existing
	  element has been fixed.  For example, integer x; ((x[3]++)).
00-11-20  A timing bug in which the shell could reset the terminal
	  group to the wrong value in the case that the a new process
	  changes the terminal group during startup has been fixed.

00-10-27  --- Release ksh93k  ---
00-10-27  Using tab for completion now works only when applied
	  after a non-blank character at the end of the current line.
	  In other case a tab is inserted.
00-10-27  A bug in the emacs edit mode for ^X^E has been fixed.
	  The ^X^E sequence is supposed to invoke the full editor
	  on the current command.
00-10-18  A bug in which expansions of the form ${var//pattern/string}
	  did not work correctly when pattern was '/' or "/" has
	  been fixed.
00-10-18  The output format for indexed arrays in compound variables
	  has been modified so that it can be used as input.
00-10-18  Assignments with name references (typeset -n) will now
	  implicitly unreference an existing name reference.
00-10-17  A bug the += append operator when a single array element
	  is appended to a variable that is not an array has been fixed.
00-10-16  A bug in which the SIGCONT signal was being sent to
	  each process will kill -0 or kill -n 0 has been fixed.
00-10-12  The arithmetic evaluation portion has been rewritten to
	  perform a number of optimizations.
00-10-10  A bug in which name prefix matching ${!name.*} was not
	  checking name to see if it was a name reference has been fixed.
00-09-26  A bug in the multibyte version in which the width of for
	  non-printing characters was not correct has been fixed.
00-09-12  Made changes to get multibyte editing work on UWIN for windows
00-09-12  A bug in which multibyte characters would be displayed incorrectly
	  has been fixed.
00-08-08  Removed build dependency on iswprint() and iswalph().
00-07-20  In some cases the read builtin would read more than a single
	  line from a pipe on standard input and therefore leave the seek
	  position in the wrong location.
00-07-05  If the directory / is on the path, a / will not be inserted
	  between the directory and the file name during path searching
	  to avoid searching // for systems that treat this specially.
00-06-26  A bug in which on rare occasions wait could return before all
	  jobs have completed has been fixed.
00-06-21  A bug in which backspace did not work correctly during the
	  R replace directive in vi-mode has been fixed.
00-06-12  Added variable name completion/expansion/listing  to the set of
	  completions.  Variable name completions begin with $ or "$ followed
	  by a letter. 
00-05-09  --- Release ksh93j  ---
00-05-09  Modified command substitution to avoid using /tmp files when
          run on read-only file systems. 
00-04-17  Modified printf to handle '%..Xc' and '%..Xs' options where X
	  is not an alpha character.  Previous versions core dumped with this.
00-04-10  Changes to multibyte editing code were made to use standard
	  ISO C functions rather than methods devised before the standard.
00-04-09  Add %H options to printf to output strings with <"'&\t> properly
	  converted for use in HTML and XML documents.
00-04-07  Modified getopts builtin to handle <.>..< >in usage string
	  by invoking specified function.
00-04-04  Added self generating man pages for bg, fc, fg, disown, jobs,
	  hist, let, ., and ulimit.
00-03-30  The append operator += has been added and can be used
	  for all assignments, strings, arrays, and compound variables.
00-03-30  Code was modified in several places to support automatic
	  generation of C locale dictionaries.
00-03-28  A bug in which the set and trap commands invoked with --name
	  type arguments would terminate the invoking script  has
	  been fixed.
00-03-27  A bug in which the library path variable was not updated  
	  correctly on some systems as described in the 'g' point
	  release has been fixed. 
00-03-07  printf now returns a non-zero exit status when one of
          its arguments cannot be converted to the given type. 
00-03-05  The return value and error message for a command that
          was found on the path but was not executable was set
          incorrectly.
00-03-05  A prototype for ioctl() was removed from the vi edit mode.

00-01-28  --- Release ksh93i  ---
00-01-28  Most of the built-in commands and ksh itself are now
          self documenting.  Running command --man will produce
          screen output.  Running command --html produces the
          man page in html format.
00-01-28  The getopts builtin can process command description
          strings to produce man pages.
00-01-28  A bug in which a script could terminate when getopts
          encountered an error when invoked inside a function
          has been fixed.
00-01-28  When a symbolic link was specified as the name of
          the script to invoke by name, the value of $0 was
          set to the real file name rather than the link name
          in some cases and this has been fixed.
00-01-28  A bug in which the precision given as an argument
	  to printf was not working has been fixed.

99-03-31  --- Release ksh93h  ---
99-03-31  The PATH search algorithm has been modified to look
	  for a file named .fpath in each bin directory and if
	  found, to search for functions in this directory if
	  it cannot find the command in that directory.
99-03-31  When performing pathname expansion, the shell checks
	  to see whether each directory it reads is case sensitive
	  or not, and performs the matching accordingly.
99-03-31  The %T format for printing formatted date/time.
99-03-31  The emacs and vi modes now handle arrow keys when
          they use standard ANSI escape sequences.
99-03-31  The TAB key can be used for completion in emacs and viraw mode.
99-03-31  A bug in setting .sh.editchar during the KEYBD trap
	  for the MULTIBYTE option was fixed in release ksh93h.
99-03-31  A bug in shcomp for compilation of unary operators with [[...]]
	  has been fixed.
99-03-31  A bug in which the value of $? was changed when executing
	  a keyboard trap has been fixed. 
99-03-31  The handling of SIGCHLD has been changed so that the
	  trap is not triggered while executing trap commands
	  to avoid recursive trap calls.
99-03-31  A bug in which a local variable in a function declared readonly
	  would generated an error when the function went out of
	  scope has been fixed.
99-03-31  A bug in which \<new_line> entered from the keyboard
	  with the KEYBD trap enabled has been fixed.
99-03-31  The error message for a misplaced ((, for example print ((3),
	  was often garbled and has been fixed.
99-03-31  A bug in the KEYBD trap in which escape sequences of the form
	  <ESC>[#~ were not being handled as a unit has been fixed.
99-03-31  A bug in which ksh would consider expressions like [[ (a) ]]
	  as syntax errors has been fixed.
99-03-31  A function defined as foo() without a function body
	  was not reported as a syntax error.
99-03-31  A bug in which ksh could run out of file descriptors when
	  a stream was repeatedly opened with exec and read from
	  has been fixed.

98-04-30  --- Release ksh93g  ---
98-04-30  The pipefail option has been added.  With pipefail
	  enabled, a pipeline will not complete until all
	  commands are complete, and the return value will
	  be that of the last command to fail, or zero if
	  all complete successfully.
98-04-30  The name-value pair library uses the cdt library rather
	  than the hash library.  This change should be transparent
	  to applications.
98-04-30  On the U/WIN version for Window 95 and Windows NT,
          when a directory beginning with a letter followed by
          a colon is given to cd, it is assumed to be an absolute
          directory
98-04-30  When an executable is found on a given path,
	  the appropriate library path variable is prepended
	  with a corresponding library directory.
98-04-30  A bug in which a name reference could be created to
	  itself and later cause the shell to get into an infinite
	  loop has been fixed.
98-04-30  A bug in shcomp relating to compound variables was fixed.
98-04-30  A bug introduced in ksh93e in which leading 0's in -Z
	  fields caused the value to be treated as octal for arithmetic
	  evaluation has been fixed.
98-04-30  A bug when a name reference with a shorter name than
          the variable it references was the subject of a compound
	  assignment has been fixed. 
98-04-30  A bug which in which assignment to array variables in
	  a subshell could effect the parent shell has been
	  fixed.
98-04-30  read name?prompt was putting a 0 byte at the end of the
	  prompt on standard error.
98-04-30  A bug in [[ string1 > string2 ]] when ksh was run with -x
	  has been fixed.
98-04-30  A bug in which the escape character was not processed
	  correctly inside {...} when brace expansion is enabled
	  has been fixed, for example {\$foo}.
98-04-30  A bug in line continuation in here-documents has been
	  fixed.
98-04-30  The default base when not specified with typeset -i is
	  10 in accordance with the documentation.  Previously,
	  the value was determined by the first assignment.   
98-04-30  A parsing bug in which a # preceded alphanumeric
	  characters inside a command substitution caused
	  a syntax error to be reported has been fixed.
98-04-30  A bug in which a decimal constant represented as 10#ddd
	  where ddd was more than five digits generated a syntax
	  error has been fixed.
98-04-30  A bug in here document expansion in which ${...} expansions
	  were split across buffer boundaries has been fixed.
98-04-30  The sh_fun() function now takes third argument which
	  is an argument list for the invoked discipline function
	  or built-in.
98-04-30  A callback function can be installed which will give
          notification of file duplications and file closes.
98-04-30  When ksh is compiled on systems that do not use fork()
	  current option settings where not propagated to sub-shells.

97-06-30  --- Release ksh93f  ---
97-06-30  Hostnames in addition to host addresses can be given in
	  /dev/tcp/host/port virtual file names.
97-06-30  File name completion and expansion now quotes special
	  characters in file names from both emacs and vi edit modes.
97-06-30  An empty for list behave like a for list with null expansions.
	  It produces a warning message with sh -n.
97-06-30  The code has been modified to work with EBCDIC as well as ASCII.
97-06-30  A bug which would cause the secondary prompt to be
	  displayed when a user entered a literal carriage
	  return has been fixed.
97-06-30  A bug which caused ksh read -s name to core dump was
	  fixed.
97-06-30  A bug with the expansion of \} and \] inside double
	  quoted strings that also contained variable expansions
	  has been fixed
97-06-30  Changes in the ksh93e point release caused autoload
	  functions invoked from within command substitution
	  to fail.  This has been fixed.
97-06-30  A bug in the processing of here-documents that could
	  prevent variable substitution to occur after $(...) command
	  substitution for long here documents has been fixed.
97-06-30  A bug caused by a race condition that could cause SIGTERM
	  to be ignored by a child process has been fixed.
97-06-30  A bug which prevented the startup of a coprocess immediately
	  after killing a running coprocess has been fixed.
97-06-30  ulimit foobar, where foobar is not an arithmetic
	  expression, now gives an error message as it did with ksh88
	  instead of setting the file size limit to 0.
97-06-30  A bug which could cause an interactive shell to terminate when
	  the last process of a pipeline was a POSIX function was fixed.
97-06-30  A bug which could cause command substitution of a shell script
	  to core dump has been fixed.
97-06-30  A security hole was fixed in suid_exec.
97-06-30  Arithmetic functions such as pow() that take more than
	  one argument, did not work if arguments other than the
	  first contained parenthesized sub-expression.
97-06-30  The error message from a script containing an incomplete
	  arithmetic expression has been corrected.
97-06-30  A bug which caused a core dump on some machines when
	  the value of a name reference contained a positional
	  parameter and the name reference was not defined inside
	  a function has been fixed.
97-06-30  Arithmetic expressions now correctly handle hexadecimal
	  constants.
97-06-30  A bug in which integer variables could be expanded
	  with a leading 10# when declared with typeset -i
	  multiple times has been corrected.
97-06-30  A bug in which IFS wasn't correctly restored when
	  set within command substitution has been fixed.
97-06-30  The _ character is now considered as part of a word
	  with the M-f and M-b emacs directives as it was in ksh88.
97-06-30  A bug in brace pattern expansions that caused expressions
          such as {foo\,bar,bam} to expand incorrectly have been fixed.


96-07-31  --- Release ksh93e  ---
96-07-31  The math functions, atan2, hypot, fmod, and pow were added.
96-07-31  When a shared library is loaded, if the function lib_init()
	  is defined in the library, it is invoked the first time that
	  the library is loaded with builtin -f library.
96-07-31  The k-shell information abstraction database option, KIA,
          has been revamped.
96-07-31  Empty command substitutions of the form $() now work.
	  whence -v foo now gives the correct result after calling
	  builtin -d foo. 
96-07-31  A bug in right to left arithmetic assignment for which
	  the arithmetic expression (( y = x = 1.5 )) did not
	  yield 1 for y when x was declared typeset -i was fixed.
96-07-31  printf has been fixed to handle format  containing  
	  and/or  145 correctly.  In addition, characters following
	  %b in the format string are no longer displayed when
	  the operand contains .
96-07-31  A bug in printf that could cause the %E format to
	  produce unnormalized results has been fixed.
96-07-31  A bug which causes some arithmetic expressions to be
	  incorrectly evaluated as integer expressions rather
	  that floating point has been fixed.
96-07-31  Functions defined inside a subshell no longer remain
	  defined when the subshell completes.
96-07-31  The error message from sh -c ';echo foo' has been
	  corrected.
96-07-31  The format for umask -S has been changed to agree
	  with the specification in the POSIX standard.
96-07-31  A bug that caused side effects in subscript evaluation
	  when tracing was enabled for subscripts using ++ or --
	  has been fixed.
96-07-31  To conform to the Posix standard getopts has been changed
	  so that the option char is set to ? when it returns with
	  a non-zero exit status.
96-07-31  The handling of \} inside ${name...} has been fixed so
	  that the  quotes the }.
96-07-31  A bug that caused the read builtin to resume execution
	  after processing a trap has been fixed.
96-07-31  [[ -s file ]] has been fixed so that if file is open
	  by ksh, it is flushed first.
96-07-31  In some cases attributes and sizes for non exported
	  variables weren't being reset before running a script.
96-07-31  The value of TMOUT was affected by changes make to
	  it in a subshell.
96-07-31  The jobs command did not reflect changes make by
	  sending the CONT signal to a command.
96-07-31  The error message for ksh -o unknown was incorrect.
96-07-31  Functions invoked as name=value name, did not use
	  values from the calling scope when evaluating value.
96-07-31  A bug in which the shell would reexecute previously
	  executed code when a shell script or coprocess was
	  run in the background has been fixed.
96-07-31  A bug in which an empty here-document would leave
	  a file descriptor open has been fixed.
96-07-31  A bug in which $(set -A array ...) would leave a
	  side effect has been fixed.
96-07-31  A discipline function for a global variable defined
	  within a function defined with the function keyword,
	  incorrectly created a local variable of the same name
	  and applied the discipline to it.

95-08-28  --- Release ksh93d  ---
95-08-28  The  character was not handled correctly in replacement
	  patterns with ${x/pattern/replace}.
95-08-28  A bug with read in which the line did not end with
	  a new-line has been fixed.
95-08-28  A bug in file name generation which sometimes
	  appended a . for filenames that ended in / has
	  been fixed.
95-08-28  If a process is waited for after a status has
	  been returned by a previous wait, wait now
	  returns 127.
95-08-28  A bug with hist (fc) -e which prevented a command
	  to re-executed after it had been edited has been fixed.
95-08-28  A bug which prevented quoting from removing the meaning
	  of unary test operators has been fixed.
95-08-28  A bug with typeahead and KEYBOARD traps with the
          MULTIBYTE option set has been fixed.
95-08-28  Builtin functions can take a third argument which is
          a void*.
95-08-28  The nv_scan() function can restrict the scope of a walk
          to the top scope.

95-04-31  --- Release ksh93c  ---
95-04-31  The expansion of "$@" was incorrect when $1 was the null
	  string.
95-04-31  A bug which could incorrectly report a syntax error in
	  a backquoted expression when a $ was preceded by \\
	  has been fixed.
95-04-31  A bug which prevented the shell from exiting after
	  reporting an error when failing to open a script
	  has been fixed.
95-04-31  A bug that could lead to memory corruption when a
	  large here document that required parameter or command
	  substitution was expanded has been fixed.
95-04-31  A bug that could cause a core dump on some systems
	  after ksh detected an error when reading a function
	  has been f