Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

On Sun I get...

IN
IN

On AIX I get...

IN
IN

On webhost (?LINUX? I suppose) I get...

IN
OUT Arhhhhhhhhgggg!!!!!

#!/bin/ksh

X=3DOUT for i in 1 2 3
do

   case ${i} in

1. X=3DIN ;; esac done

echo ${X}

X=3DOUT echo "1\n2\n3" > cat.file

cat cat.file | while read i
do

   case ${i} in

1. X=3DIN ;; esac done

echo ${X}

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