Re: Unix utilities available under DOS

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From: Hans Paaimans
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <848631595snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> phil@vision25.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <32946A6F.167EB0E7@leeds.ac.uk>
>           N.J.Bailey@leeds.ac.uk "N J Bailey" writes:
>>Phil Hunt wrote:
>>> Unix has a number of useful utilities packaged with it, eg sort,
>>> grep, sed, awk. Have these been ported to MSDOS, and if so where do
>>> I get hold of them?

There is (was) a Unix-like toolkit for MS-DOS, called MKS. It runs
pretty well (until, of course, you have seen a real Unix). It is (was)
sold by:

Mortice Kern Systems, 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Canada.

In my turn I would appreciate to know if it still exists.

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From: paai@kub.nl (Hans Paaimans)
Subject: Re: Unix utilities available under DOS
Date: 1996/11/25
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