While I realize this might not be the best forum for this, it is the
ksh that is in base--and the official pdksh-5.2.14 has been abandoned
since '99.  That said, I'm not too familiar with shell scripting, but
I'm giving it a spin and am having some issues with typeset that I'd
appreciate an appropriate clue stick with.

$ cat temp
typeset -L32 x="string1"
y="string2"
echo $x $y

$ sh temp
string1 string2

As far as I understand it, the output should look like the following,
but this is not the case:

string1                          string2

What am I missing here?  I am using typeset in a similar fashion in
some while loops and it's working as expected, but the scenario above
has me perplexed.

Thanks.

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