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Re: Unix utilities available under DOS

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From: Cal Dunigan
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00
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On 25 Nov 1996, Hans Paaimans wrote:

> 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.

It does indeed.  I contacted them last month to find out if they have
versions for Win95 and NT. (They do.)  No flames, please I was
checking for a customer.

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From: Cal Dunigan <cdi@goodnet.com>
Subject: Re: Unix utilities available under DOS
Date: 1996/11/26
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