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From: apn@nonvon.uucp (Alex P Novickis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for DOS greppers
Message-ID: <1987Nov11.230357.14903@nonvon.uucp>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 02:03:54 EST
Article-I.D.: nonvon.1987Nov11.230357.14903
Posted: Thu Nov 12 02:03:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 20:28:18 EST
References: <331@gvgspd.UUCP> <312@mks.UUCP> <4651@zen.berkeley.edu> <7776@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1281@csib.csi.UUCP>
Reply-To: apn@nonvon.UUCP (Alexander Paul Novickis)
Organization: nonvon systems research group
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In article <1281@csib.csi.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
>In article <4651@zen.berkeley.edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (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).  For instance, the DECUS grep seems to be fairly complete and
>
>When I find a public domain grep that let's me type
>
>   grep garbage ../*/*.c
>
>and searchs all ten subdirectories that I have source in, then I'll feel bad
>that I paid the ~$100 for MKS.  Until then, it is definitly well worth the
>relativly inexpensive price.  Not to mention the some 70 other tools, many of
>which I havn't seen duplicated by anyone else.  So you screw around with your
>public domain grep wondering why it doesn't work and I'll continue to 
>get my job done with programs that do the job and are as bug-free as any
>I've seen.
>
I agree with the first posting. MKS is not bug free although better than most
public domain/shareware junk that is inflicted upon the world. Ever try feeding
a shell script to the MKS "sh".... HAAH!! Anything but trivial code is rejected.
Also, their "rm" command manages to bomb my hard disk if the "-r" option is 
used, fairly consistantly. I've now gone back to "del" since it is both much
faster and safer.  I do like thier "vi", though... a reasonably complete 
implementation, although many of the finer points of a unix vi have been 
omitted. It also bombs on lines longer than 80 characters, BUT at least I
could edit files with it that are 900k long, and files that contain 
IBM PC type graphic characters..... unlike kedit or ws or wp or brief.
All in all I would say that it is worth the $100, although it is a far cry
from the real answer.


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