Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: <2019@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 02:14:54 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 36 In article towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) writes: | 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. So then why post your FSF ad? You should post informational postings, like the one about ksh88e. | 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. bash is nice if you want to modify the source. ksh comes with source which works, and I've compiled 88d on about 15 machines and o/s variations without having to port a special compiler or set of header files to compile it. Not everyone run gcc. | 3) People don't want junk postings any more than they want | junk mail. So don't post 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. Hell, I'll tell you for free: alt.flame. Please take your posting and philosophy with you. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me