Hi misc@, I noticed that sh and ksh have different behaviors from doing "export PS1='\[\033[01;35m\]COLOR\$ '", here "sh" shows "\[\033[01;35m\]COLOR#" in gray, while "ksh" shows "COLOR#" in purple.
sh and ksh's binaries are equivalent. I do see that sh's and ksh's man pages differ, e.g. http://man.openbsd.org/ksh#PS1 and http://man.openbsd.org/sh#PS1 differ. Until now however I used to think that while they have different documentation (different interfaces), they would actually behave the same. On a quick sourcecode check I didn't see any code paths e.g. "if (argv[0] matches "ksh") { something } else { something else }" however I presume I missed something. What's going on, what's the point? Joseph