>>And if we are discussing benefits of perl over nc, then WTF didn't anyone
>>ask about including perl yet?! *duck&run*

>I believe someone mentioned removing ksh (really pdksh). I would appreciate

I certainly would not.  Replacing pdksh with the real ksh is one thing
(though I find pdksh's emacs mode better - but I'm biased), but removing
ksh from the system would be unacceptable.

--sjg