ksh incompatabilities with sh?

[Karl Meiser]

In article <4862 at teddy.UUCP> jpn at teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>>It should be noted, however, that the Korn shell (at least the
>>versions I've used) does _n_o_t keep the environment alphabetized,
>>as do the other shells; this is a documented inconsistency ...
>
>Sorry, but csh doesn't seem to keep environment variables alphabetized,
>either.  This would appear to be an ideosyncracy unique to "sh".
>

But is this a plus or a minus?  Is there anything serious wrong with
not alphabetizing?  Suppose you want to find the last changed variable.

It all depends on what you want on how you look at it

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