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From: knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: grep, awk, sed and other UNIX utilities - how can I get them?
Message-ID: <63320013@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 19:26:28 GMT
References: <34868@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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>Dear Netlanders,
>
>	Would one of you good folks out there please direct me to a 
>source of the above utilities? I should prefer public domain but am 
>prepared to pay a modest sum.
>
>Thanks in advance.

I bought the MKS Toolkit, and am *very* happy with it. It has a very complete
set of UNIX commands including AWK, vi, and K-shell. The K-shell even works
with the ESC key, ie, you can hit escape and then use vi keys to move through
the history file, just like a real UNIX system. The down side is that it is
very expensive, around $175. But, you get what you pay for, I always say.
At least you can be 100% certain that it is virus-free. That's worth the money
alone to me.

tk