Shells (was: job control in 386/ix?)
Gary Blumenstein
garyb at crpmks.UUCP
Thu Dec 7 00:43:12 AEST 1989
In article <324 at ubbs-nh.MV.COM> gmd at ubbs-nh.MV.COM (George MacDonald) writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>One reason for the lack of enthusiasm for csh is that the ksh has existed for
>over 6 years inside AT&T. FYI the ksh provides all of the csh features in
>a slightly different way, plus it is smaller, faster and upwards compatible
>with the bourne shell.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
For those of you who are interested, Mortice Kern Systems, the makers of
the MKS Toolkit for DOS has a Korn Shell available for both SCO and
ISC *NIX. The software is called Trilogy and contains ksh, awk, and crypt.
I don't know what advantages you get with their version of awk although
it's advertised as compatable with Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan's
1987 awk specification. The package is cheap too, $119 buys you non-copy
protected 386 binaries.
I ordered a copy for SCO XENIX and will buy the ISC version if it works out
for my applications. The salesman told me that you don't see a copyright
banner when ksh is invoked. I like this because it means our carefully
designed user interface won't get blasted by some confounded foreign invasion
of characters (as some other ksh implementations do)!
MKS is located at
35 King St. North
Ontario, Canada N2J 2W9
Orders: (800) 265-2797
Info: (519) 884-2251
Fax: (519) 884-8861
* * Disclaimer * * These are only my opinions. We're not pushing MKS products.
--
Gary M. Blumenstein, UNIX Network Administrator // CIBA-GEIGY Corporation USA
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