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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: public domain ksh sources - where ?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:52:14 GMT
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In article <2797@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> john@chook.ua.oz
(John Warburton) writes:

>So, from this I would assume that it is in the public domain...
>So, is it possible to get it straight from AT&T on the Internet??

The assumption does not follow. The ToolChest is a service through which
AT&T can distribute software that they may or may not wish to support, and
everything in it has a price [but usually not large], and the source is
available. 

Ksh is now being bundled with various systems, for example ULTRIX.
I would not be surprised to see it in the next release of SunOS as well.

The public domain ksh (originally by Erik Gisin) is a subset of ksh,
something like a minimalist version. By and large, it works.

oz
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Ps: If you need the toolchest description of ksh, drop me a line.
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