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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: bin/660: /bin/sh has problem with redirection.
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>> >... The pdksh also seems a lot smaller:
>> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  217088 Jul  4 22:38 ksh
>> >lrwxr-xr-x  1 bin  bin       3 Aug  8 01:16 sh -> ksh
>> >-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  299008 Jun 10 11:48 sh.old
>> 
>> The difference is mostly for the 63K libedit.a that gives support for both
>> vi and emacs mode line editing.

>Isn't (pd)ksh also supposed to have command-line editing?

It's probably less bloated.  It is possible to write a file editor in 2K,

Bruce