Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:1621 comp.unix.xenix:8882 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!philmtl!philabs!crpmks!garyb From: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Shells (was: job control in 386/ix?) Message-ID: <1097@crpmks.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 89 13:43:12 GMT References: <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <1989Nov19.180741.8950@tolerant.com> <324@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> Reply-To: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation Lines: 31 In article <324@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> gmd@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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (914) 347-4700 7 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 FAX (914) 347-5687 UUCP ...uunet!philabs!crpmks!garyb