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diff --git a/Etc/STD-TODO b/Etc/STD-TODO
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+++ b/Etc/STD-TODO
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ All parameters in ksh are indexed arrays. That's why $array has to mean
${array[0]}, and why subscripts can't be used to extract substrings from
scalars.
+`typeset a' in ksh does not initialise `a' to be a scalar with the empty
+string as its value but leaves it undefined. If it is used in array
+context, its value will be that of an empty array so, for example
+"${a[@]}" will return nothing.
+
In ksh,
exec 3<file
causes file 3 to be close on exec. DGK says: "This allows scripts to