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From: forrest@phobos.sybase.com (Jon Forrest)
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Subject: Re: MKS Tools on Toshiba T1000
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Date: 31 Jan 89 18:06:34 GMT
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In article <6707@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM> andyd@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Andy Davidson) writes:
>
>I have been helping a friend try to install the MKS Toolkit (or part of
>it) on a Toshiba 1000 laptop.
[...]
>The MKS tools are ok, though of course wild card expansion
>doesn't work right.  (Thus,  'wc *.bat' gives the error message 'wc:
>cannot open file "*.bat"'.  The one exception is ls which fails no
>matter what I do.  The command 'ls' fails for 'ls: File or directory ""
>is not found' and 'ls bin' fails for 'ls: File or directory "bin" is
>not found')

This happened to me too. There is a bug in the tools that only
shows up under MSDOS 2.x. I called MKS to report this problem
and they said they'd ship me a new version of the tools with
the bug fixed, which they did. I posted a message about this about
a year ago.

So, I'd give MKS an F for not testing such a simple command in
such a simple environment, but an A for customer support and
an A for such a good product.

Jon Forrest
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