Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: <6465@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 3 Oct 90 12:47:56 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie, Unthank Lines: 26 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Keywords: towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) wrote: > 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. > There are several things wrong with this blatant advertisement: > 1) It has always been frowned upon to post ads to regular groups [...] Not unconditionally. This ad didn't indulge in superfluous puffery. It was useful to me. > 2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the GNU superset > shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type editing [...] Last time I heard about it, bash didn't have "select", which makes it a LONG way from being a superset. (If the only edit mode it has is vi, forget it). I appreciate Larry telling us about the new version, and hope that new versions of other shells are also announced here. -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp