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Re: Windowing Korn Shell Will it Die of Obscurity?

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From: Number 6
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 05:24
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I don't know if it will or not.  I certainly don't have good
references for documentation on it.  I've certainly fired it off and
have been baffled (I mean, I can't do any windowing with it).  

In order to survive, however, I think it must be licensed like ksh and
distributed to everyone.  I have ksh on the RS/6000 (AIX) and I'd LOVE
to see wksh on it.  I've asked IBM, but, well, they're not going to do
it anytime soon (at least that's my general impression).  One thing
nice about AIX, the ksh is the default shell for all users, including
root (don't flame about security, and the "ease" with which a history
command is executed.)  Even in maintenance mode, ksh is the shell.
Nice.

Maybe one other enhancement....cksh....curses ksh.  With full
linedrawing support and perhaps a subset of wksh.  I once wrote 900
lines of ksh code to support line drawing and it S.L.O.W.!  (And C was
inappropriate due to lack of a C compiler!)  I know fmli is there, and
I enjoy it, but it is unavailable on AIX and the RS/6000 (another one
of my queries about 1.5 years ago).



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From: nathan@seldon.foundation.tricon.com (Number 6)
Subject: Re: Windowing Korn Shell  Will it Die of Obscurity?
Message-ID: <1994Jan16.052428.4549@daneel.foundation.tricon.com>
Keywords: wksh
Organization: Triicon Systems, Inc., Lompoc, CA
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