Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!brianc
From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix emulation alternatives for IBM compatibles
Message-ID: <2330@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 19:39:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2330
Posted: Wed Feb 24 14:39:39 1988
References: <811@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 39

In article <811@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
> It doesn't have my favorite dc (desk calculator),
> nor development tools such as make.

If anyone is interested, I have a copy  of dc that runs on PCs. I will mail
it  to  anyone  that is  interested,  or  post  it  if enough  interest  is
expressed. I also have  the source, but will have to  check with the author
to see if posting it is a possibility.

> I don't have any dramatic bugs to report in the MKS toolkit, though
> there are a couple of minor oddities.  Initially I had hoped that ksh
> would give me an Emacs editing mode much like mencsh or tcsh.  It
> probably isn't MKS's fault that it doesn't.  But I find it hard to get
> used to a mode where ^U and ^W don't do delete line and word.

Emacs was the first  editing mode I used also (I don't like  vi), but I now
use the vi editing mode simply because it allows me to use ^U and ^W as I'm
used to.

I haven't found any dramatic bugs in  the MKS toolkit either. I do have one
particular gripe though  -- many fullscreen programs, such  as freemacs and
list, exit  without clearing the  screen but by  leaving the cursor  on the
last  line. When  these programs  exit under  sh the  cursor is  invariably
placed on the  24th line (which just  happens to be the status  line of the
above mentioned programs).  Any text typed in at this  point overwrites the
previous contents of line 24 making things ugly and confusing.

> The other odd thing is that I
> had a performance problem with their "ls".  I like ls to produce
> columnated output, as it does under BSD.  They supply a -C option, so I
> figured I'd just alias ls to ls -C.  That works, but is very slow.

I noticed  this too, although I  never took the  time to figure out  why. I
have also  resorted to  using "ls  -x" (although, I  would much  prefer the
sorted-down format). Thanks for the explanation.
-- 
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