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From: gerard@progress.COM (Gerard Bras)
Subject: Re: Thompson Toolkit (was Re: Where can I get MKS toolkit?)
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 15:21:39 GMT
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andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:

>[]

>	"MKS Utilities attempt a total and perfect emulation of UNIX
>	... IMHO, MKS is unusable because they insist on treating
>	"c:foo" as identical to "c:/foo"; they claim this is more UNIX
>	compatible and therefore desirable."

>To us died-in-the-wool Unix experts who don't know much MSDOS and
>aren't very interested in learning, the adherence of MKS to the
>"perfect emulation" goal is highly attractive.  I, for one, am
>delighted to have "c:foo" treated the same as "c:\foo".

>Different strokes for different folks -- the essence of a free market.

>  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
>                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)

	How curious.  You must ahve interested in learning at one time,
else you would not have become a Unix expert.  Seriously, I'm a heavy
MKS user and can tell you it's niether perfect Unix or DOS-friendly.
Other than that I can't live without it.


						-gb-