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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
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Subject: Re: Re: Is 'ksh' available.
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 09:24:22 EST
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> My impression is that the Korn shell is not generally available
> outside AT&T.  Meanwhile, various ksh-like features have been
> appearing in the official Bourne shell.  At BRL, Ron Natalie has
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> 	Committee to Stamp Out Csh

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I'm intrigued.  Could somebody in the know please post a brief description of
ksh?  What makes it so much better than csh (or sh, for that matter)?  Is it
easier to program?  More convenient for command-line operations?  What?

Thanks in advance!

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Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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