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Article #1346

Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest

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From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 02:14
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In article <TOWFIQ.90Oct2112740@lcxserver.InterLan.COM> towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) writes:

| There are several things wrong with this blatant advertisement:
| 
| 	1) It has always been frowned upon to post ads to regular
| 	groups, and some people are actively hostile to it.  

  So then why post your FSF ad? You should post informational postings,
like the one about ksh88e.

| 	2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the
| 	GNU superset shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type
| 	editing, and built-in help, among other things).  GNU is free,
| 	with modifiable source; ksh costs money.

  bash is nice if you want to modify the source. ksh comes with source
which works, and I've compiled 88d on about 15 machines and o/s
variations without having to port a special compiler or set of header
files to compile it. Not everyone run gcc.

| 	3) People don't want junk postings any more than they want
| 	junk mail.  

  So don't post junk mail.

| 	            There is a newsgroup for this stuff, you know.
| 	I'll let you read news.announce.NEWUSERS to find out what it
| 	is.

  Hell, I'll tell you for free: alt.flame. Please take your posting and
philosophy with you.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest
Message-ID: <2019@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 90 02:14:54 GMT
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