Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!interlan.InterLan.COM!interlan.interlan.com!towfiq From: towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 15:27:40 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> Sender: news@interlan.Interlan.COM (No News is BAD News) Organization: Racal InterLan, Inc., Boxborough, MA (1-800-LAN-TALK) Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.att.com's message of 28 Sep 90 20:50:53 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: lcxserver.interlan.com In article <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: ksh 11/16/88e is now available in the AT&T Toolchest; there is a $150 upgrade for previous purchasers. [rest of yucky advertising deleted] Okay, okay, this is a blatant advertisment! What of it!? There are several things wrong with this blatant advertisement: 1) It has always been frowned upon to post ads to regular groups, and some people are actively hostile to it. Most netters try to be more objective about mentioning products, so that even if they talk about their own product, they mention pros and cons WRT other products. 2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the GNU superset shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type editing, and built-in help, among other things). GNU is free, with modifiable source; ksh costs money. 3) People don't want junk postings any more than they want junk mail. There is a newsgroup for this stuff, you know. I'll let you read news.announce.NEWUSERS to find out what it is. Please refrain from this in the future. -- Mark Towfigh, Racal InterLan, Inc. towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM W: (508) 263-9929 H: (617) 488-2818 uunet!interlan!towfiq "The Earth is but One Country, and Mankind its Citizens" -- Baha'u'llah