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From: jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Public domain version of ksh is available
Message-ID: <5122@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 89 21:42:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer)

In article <2382@netmbx.UUCP>, fischer@netmbx (Axel Fischer) writes:
>In article <614@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> chet@amrap.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:
>>>Does anyone have any reports on this public domain ksh?
>>>Compatibility, portability?
>>
>>It seems to work OK on SunOS 3.5.  Pipes don't work at all on any version
>>of Ultrix (`ls | cat' gives the error "cat: bad file number" or something
>>to that effect).  I haven't had time to look deeply into it yet; if I do,
>>and I fix it, I'll post fixes somewhere.
>I'm also very interested in that. Where can I obtain a copy or even better
>can someone post it to either comp.unix.sources or alt.sources.
>
	I'm not sure how old that version is.  We've got a version
here that we made work on Ultrix, and have added vi mode.  IT's still
in alpha test, so don't expect too much, although it's starting to get
stable.  Several of us here use it for a login shell.  Maybe the main
author, Eric Gisin, should start releasing notes about it, but I doubt
that he wants it in general circulation at this stage.  The vi mode
was written here, and we haven't sent our latest bug fixes, so it's
not all that great.
Jeff Sparkes 		uunet!garfield!jeff1 || jeff1@garfield.mun.edu