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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: Good date programs
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Date: 18 May 89 03:57:53 GMT
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>Maybe the set of PiCnix utilities?  Their cost is zero, and (although they
>don't include the "heavyweight" program like vi or ksh), they do include

PiCnix doesn't include any middle weight utilities like sort either. In
the limited sense that almost anything **IX is more usable than
anything **DOS, PiCnix is worth looking at. IMHO it does not give you
anything that a a modestly experienced C programmer could not write for
[him|her]self or assemble from various pd items floating about.

Writing a usable vi and korn shell that actually work despite the
fundmentally brain-dead MSDOS platform is a programming tour-de-force!
MKS Toolkit is worth every penny.