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From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MKS Login
Message-ID: <4159@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 88 19:56:43 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<...have you not also run into problems with programs that won't run when the 
Korn shell is used as command interpreter?...>

Hey, if it won't run under ksh, I don't need it!  I'm a Unix user first, and a 
MeSs-DOS user only when I must.  Having similar environments is more important 
to me than being able to run every brain-damaged application.  I've not found 
*any* commercial programs that don't run under ksh, and I don't need 
freeware/shareware/PD stuff so badly that I'll give up my environment.

The biggest problem seems to be applications that make assumptions about memory 
use, which is not a problem with ksh, but a problem with *any* command 
interpreter used instead of COMMAND.COM.  Why even have pluggable command 
interpreters if applications assume otherwise?  I doubt that anything that 
flunks the ksh test would run under Windows, etc.

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