Strange behaviour of the "cd" command

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:06:47 +0000, C de-Avillez wrote:
>It is worth noting, however, that the git repository seems to be
>dormant, with the last change about 6 years ago ( as of a few weeks
>ago, when I last looked at it).

There seems to be a beta release available from 3years ago.

On GitHub there are only images from 4 years ago and regarding

https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/k/ksh/rules-93u%2B20120801-3.1

the download is available by an AT&T website. Regarding the DL_VERSION,
it seems to be 5 years old.

#!/usr/bin/make -f

PACKAGE = ksh

# Variables just for get-orig-source
SRC_VERSION := 93u+20120628
DL_VERSION = 2012-06-28
SRC_DIR = $(PACKAGE)-$(SRC_VERSION)
TARBALL = $(SRC_DIR).tar.gz
[snip]
get-orig-source:
	rm -rf $(SRC_DIR) $(TARBALL)
	mkdir $(SRC_DIR)
	wget --http-user 'I accept www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl' \
	  --http-password . -O - \
	  http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/INIT.$(DL_VERSION).tgz | \
	  tar xzf - -C $(SRC_DIR)
	wget --http-user 'I accept www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl' \
	  --http-password . -O - \
	  http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/ast-ksh.$(DL_VERSION).tgz | \
	  tar xzf - -C $(SRC_DIR)
	tar cf - $(SRC_DIR) | tardy -group 0 -user 0 - - | gzip -c9 > $(TARBALL)

This might be from interest, by the Arch Wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ksh

there is a pointer to the Arch User Repository, since it's not available
by official Arch repositories. The MirBSD Korn Shell is available by
official Arch repositories.

However, the perhaps interesting part is inside the Arch User
Repository's PKGBUILD,
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ksh .

[snip]
pkgver='2014.06.25beta'
pkgrel='1'
source=("http://${_opt_EPLUSERE}:${_opt_EPLPASS}@www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/beta/INIT.2014-12-24.tgz"
        "http://${_opt_EPLUSERE}:${_opt_EPLPASS}@www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/beta/ast-base.2014-06-25.tgz"
        "http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ksh/${_debfile}" # man page and misc files
[snip]

Regards,
Ralf