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From: Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net>
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Subject: pdksh errors - Solved!
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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 21:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Well, I dunno if anybody has any interest in this, but I solved my
earlier problem of pdksh crapping out whenever I tried to run
/usr/bin/clear.  The error was in the global /etc/ksh.kshrc file.
Here is the culprit:

     HOSTNAME=${HOSTNAME:-`uname -n`
     HOST=${HOSTNAME%%.*}            <--- error

My Korn Shell book is at work so I haven't tried to figure out what is
wrong with that statement.  For all intents and purposes it *should*
work.  But, I commented it out, and now pdksh is happy.

Incidentally, you may recall that the original error was:

     /usr/bin/clear: 21: syntax error: bad substitution

Well, I'll leave it to the reader to figure out what line number the
offending statement was in the /etc/ksh.kshrc file. :)

Cheers,
-Wes