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Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32
- To: "Valery Tulnikov" <valtul@demos.su>, "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao@a.crl.com>, "cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:51:48 -0500
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>I remembered the old discussion in uwin list concerning MKS Toolkit. David
>Korn was skeptical on this implementation of ksh and MS decision to license
>it. He also informed that the only 'right' ksh implementation on Win32 is
>included with UWIN package.
>
But he also wrote in one of his message on U/WIN, Datafocus has been around
much longer then U/WIN therefore it could be more polished product compared
to U/WIN. So, who has the right implementation or a better product becomes
more debatable.
Regards
Suhaib
>With best regards,
>
>Valery Tulnikov,
>valtul@demos.su
>http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul
>
>> Wasn't the MKS Toolkit licensed to Microsoft to be included in the next
>> version of NT? I remember reading a press story about Mr. Korn showing
>> up in one of the Microsoft demos, and challenged the compliance of that
>> version of Korn shell, which the Microsoft manager vehemently denied
>> until someone pointed out that he's being challenged by Mr. Korn
>> himself.
>>
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>> Weiqi Gao
>> weiqigao@a.crl.com
>>
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