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From: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for DOS greppers
Message-ID: <463@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 10:34:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 10:34:47 1987
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In article <4651@zen.berkeley.edu>, iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson) writes:
> I'm getting kinda tired of hearing about MKS.  It's as if everyone who got
> suckered into plunking down their $70 (or what ever it is), wants to make
> sure everyone else gets taken in, too.  Alot of the tools you can get from
> them are available in source and in the public domain (the only one I haven't
> seen is awk).....

  I have done both, e.g., downloaded pd routines and (ultimately) purchased 
  MKS.  I very much appreciated the time and effort people invested in pro-
  viding free software "for the rest of us".  But I also saw the cost-effective-
  ness of the MKS package to me (and to others, I am sure, for various reasons;
  access to and the wherewithal to adapt code to a particular c-compiler is
  one of them).  The MKS package has two "big" features that particularly
  appealed to me: a solid implementation of vi and a shell that recognizes
  file wild-cards (yes, I could have added the latter to all the pd programs
  in which this was missing.  But I spend little enough time with my family
  as it is....).  Naturally, I still use much pd software - both on my pc and
  on our uVAXen (compress, less, bm, etc).

  So: I am not in any way criticizing the pd route.  But the MKS and similar
      packages are, from my point of view, an excellent "buy" for many people-
      and this forum is a good one for making them aware of their availabili-
      ty.

       greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny