Bakken, Luke wrote: >>I need a korn shell that will handle the windows-like path names >>(pdksh), and where "read" executes in the same shell that called it >>(ksh '93). >>> Keep wishing. There are other ways of doing what you need to do with > sqlplus without using a pipe and read. > I have dozen's of ksh scripts already written and running on other platforms. I'm not going to change them all just to accomodate a weakness in Cygwin, or more precisely pdksh. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/