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From: rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Tcsh? Ksh? anything?
Message-ID: <2429@viscous.sco.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 21:18:50 GMT
References: <598@marob.MASA.COM> <12189@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: uunet!rosso (Ross Oliver)
Organization: SCO Technical Support
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In article <12189@reed.UUCP> wab@reed.UUCP (Bill Baker) writes:
>>In article <12134@reed.UUCP> wab@reed.UUCP (Bill Baker) writes:
>>>Wait a minute.  As of fall '87 SCO was distributing a ksh floppy (undocumented
>>>and unsupported) to interested customers.  Is this no longer the case?
>>
>>If that were the case, I think many more of us would have known about it
>>and it would have been in wide circulation at this point ...
>
>You're probably right and it probably isn't SCO's policy anymore, but it was at
>one time because I myself checked such a floppy out of SCO's product
>engineering cabinet.  Easy to check, though, since the SCO Hotline
>folks read this newsgroup.  Ross, is this no longer the case?


SCO Support has never distributed any version of the Korn shell.
I believe it is licensed by AT&T as an entirely seperate product
(for more $$$), and is therefore not included in a UNIX license.

Ross Oliver
Technical Support
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.