Korn Shell - Variants

Variants

There are several software products related to KornShell:

• dtksh — a fork of ksh93, which is part of CDE;
• tksh — a fork of ksh93, which provides access to the Tk widget toolkit
• oksh — a fork of OpenBSD′s flavour of KornShell, which supports GNU/Linux only; it is used as the default shell in DeLi Linux;
• mksh — a free implementation of the KornShell language from MirOS BSD licensed under the permissive BSD/MIT-style MirOS Licence;
• SKsh — an AmigaOS flavour, which provides several Amiga-specific features, such as ARexx interoperability;
• MKS Inc.′s MKS Korn shell — a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) up to version 2.0; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998; in SFU version 3.0 Microsoft replaced the MKS Korn shell with a new POSIX.2-compliant shell as part of Interix;
• KornShell is included in UWIN, a Unix compatibility package by David Korn.