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From: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit question
Message-ID: <7724@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 1 Apr 89 12:46:44 GMT
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Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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Recently,  ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
|
|Anyone who would look for C-shell clone under MSDOS must be the kind of
|person who would look for way to merge his Edsel and VW bug!
|
|MKS offers a very reasonable Korn (ksh) shell for MSDOS (and Xenix).
|Overall, its a bit like fuel injecting an Edsel. On the one hand, you
|have to admire the technical expertise. On the other hand, you have to
|wonder, "Gee, just think what they could have done with a Porsche!"
|

That's right, but how many working-class people do you know who can afford
to drive a Porsche?

Similarly, there are a lot of folks out there who have no choice regarding
the machines or O/S to use; all they can do is put some piece
of software on top of their hard- and software platform to make it a little
less awkward to use.

And if a person is more familiar with CSH than with SH or KSH, that's what
he'll be looking for to make his MS-DOS environment more easy to use.

Speculation on what type of person that would be is silly and unnecessary,
on a par with the periodic, idiotic "editor wars".
-- 
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