Thanks for the reply.  I see from the listserv that Roy Zimmer who has a
Voyager system and korn shell the same as at Yale also had the same
problem, so I guess that settles it.  I'm posting  this  back to the
listserv as confirmation.  (unix shells are like standards ... there are
soo many to choose from.)

 I like portability and consistency too which is why we do as much work
as possible in java. ;-)

Hickey,Thom wrote:

>We do much of our code development (and processing) on Windows machines and
>recently moved to Cygwin using the GNU Bash shell.  After fussing with the
>configuration files for a couple of hours, things are now usable.  We've
>just received a Linux Beowulf cluster for some text retrieval experiments
>and are using Bash there, too and it's a real pleasure having (fairly)
>compatible shells.
>
>--Th
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey Barnett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:29 PM
>To: Hickey,Thom
>Subject: tr with different shells
>
>I didn't want to clutter the listserv with this, but if you wouldn't
>mind helping my curiosity, what shell do you use? (mine is ksh).
>
>