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From: poirier@ra.cs.unc.edu (Dan Poirier)
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Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit questions
Summary: When will the new version be available?
Keywords: MKS
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Date: 1 Jun 89 16:33:18 GMT
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In article <1010@mks.UUCP> andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy) writes:
# In article <14198@watdragon.waterloo.edu> glroberts@lotus.waterloo.edu (Gordon L. Roberts) writes:
# >``shell=c:\bin\sh.exe''.  The shell takes up about 80K, but if you run
# >it with the option to load its transient code up high then that frees
# >up about 64K.  This is the same thing that command.com does.  Sh does
# 
# This is NOT a feature of the Korn Shell (sh.exe) in the MKS Toolkit
# version 2.3.  Some people have the release of the version 2.3 ksh that
# has this undocumented feature, but it is not supported in 2.3.  You can
# look for it in the next version of the MKS Toolkit.  I wanted to make
# sure that people were aware of this fact in case they tried to do it and
# couldn't because they probably can't do it yet.  But soon...
                                                       ^^^^
When will the new version be available?  If I purchase the
toolkit now (and it sounds tempting), what's the upgrade
policy?

# Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,  Internet: andy%mks@watmath.UWaterloo.ca
#   35 King Street North, Waterloo,            UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
#       Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9         Phone: 519/884-2251   FAX: 519/884-8861


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Dan Poirier        UNC Chapel Hill    poirier@cs.unc.edu