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towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfiq) wrote:
> lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>> ksh 11/16/88e is now available in the AT&T Toolchest; there
>> is a $150 upgrade for previous purchasers.
> There are several things wrong with this blatant advertisement:

> 1) It has always been frowned upon to post ads to regular groups [...]

Not unconditionally.  This ad didn't indulge in superfluous puffery.  It was
useful to me.

> 2) The ksh is a miserable piece of junk, when compared to the GNU superset
> shell, BASH (which supports ksh-like vi-type editing [...]

Last time I heard about it, bash didn't have "select", which makes it a
LONG way from being a superset.  (If the only edit mode it has is vi,
forget it).

I appreciate Larry telling us about the new version, and hope that new
versions of other shells are also announced here.

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