source command on ksh?

[Dave Hammond]

In article <17396 at adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr at xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>A friend of mine is using the MKS korn shell on DOS and wanted to know:
>
>"How do I run a shell script in the context of the current shell?"

In both ksh and sh, the dot (".") command does this, e.g.:

. shell_script

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