Ksh Documentation

[Bill Kennedy]

In article <177 at focsys.UUCP> larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:
>I've obtained the korn shell from microport's bbs and I love it.

Me too!  And I paid for mine from Aspen in NJ :-)  Couldn't be without it.

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>to spend the long distance call to california to get microport's ksh).
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>Where can I get documentation on ksh?

It's another LD call to CA but if you call Computer Literacy book store
in San Jose, they have a quick reference in a spiral binding that's
good for just that.  Also there is a book that they have, I think the
title is UNIX Shell Programming by Kochan & Wood that has a chapter or
so devoted to it. (408) 435-1118

The people where I got mine (one each for V/AT and Xenix 386) encloses
a rather complete tutorial text and manual pages for ksh.  Since they
get over $100 (I forget at the moment) for the ksh binary, I am not
sure they'd just sell you the book.  Their name is Aspen something or
other (there's also an Aspen in Colorado who sells curses, that's why
I'm fuzzy) and they are in NJ.  They advertise regularly in UNIX/World
and UNIX Review or try area code 201 directory assistance for Parsippany.

For me there are two big wins with ksh.  It does everything that csh
(on a non-BSD system) can do as well as sh (csh doesn't seem to like
to unshar things).  If you have to run both DOS and UNIX it's very
valuable to have the same command interpreter and syntax.  Some of the
other features (improved arithmetic capability, command line editing)
are a real pleasure but the uniform command interface is invaluable.
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