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From: bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Bowles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Data compression for UNIX/DOS
Keywords: data compression, MS-DOS
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Date: 18 Oct 88 17:55:34 GMT
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>Another nice feature of the MKS Toolkit is their cpio....

I could talk with you 'til the cows came home about MKS's Toolkit.
(Or is that, "I could talk with the cows 'til you came home..."?)

MKS provides compress, cpio, Unix-like nm, an up-to-date awk (I even
ran DOS-under-Unix on my '386 machine for a couple of days to get to
use the new awk under Unix, as an experiment), vi, the Korn shell, and
lots more.  

I don't work for MKS, and don't plan to because I really don't like hacking
MS-DOS, but consider myself a satisfied customer. From what I hear, I'm not
the only one.

*****

If you need things that you recognize from Unix environments, like the
text formatters, shells, text-mangling utilities, and so on, it might
be a good idea to ask MKS what they have. The only company I've seen
stick to a "let's make it intuitive" model as well as MKS is Elan, who
makes a troff product.

And strangely enough, I think they're competitors in that arena....

	Jeff Bowles