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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: comparision/best price on PC/VI and MKS Toolkit wanted
Message-ID: <2262@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 17:26:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2262
Posted: Wed May  6 17:26:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 8-May-87 04:56:32 EDT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: IBM PC, MS-DOS, UNIX VI for the PC

> I am considering the purchase of either PC/VI or the MKS Toolkit and
> would like to get some idea as to which package is better, ...
> 
I've responded to these inquiries before, so I'll keep this short: 

I have the MKS Toolkit and I wouldn't trade it back in (and use
command.com and 'friends') again on a bet! It is not only a great
collection of programs (vi, sed, awk, cpio, dd, mv, cp, find, ls
with all options, fgrep & egrep, etc, etc) but it includes aliasing
and functions like Korn Shell AND has some of the best documentation
I've ever seen. I use the MKS documentation to figure out UNIX
commands of the same name (especially sed and awk!) With PC/VI at
somewhere around $100 and MKS Toolkit and around $150 you're wasting
your money to get only vi!

My only complaint is that there appears to be no "lpr" or equivalent
command to print files to the line printer; and my e-mail inquiries
regarding same are either lost or ignored. (But then, how many
places even _have_ email i/o?)

keith (just a satisfied customer of MKS) ericson