Ksh (newest)

[Piercarlo Grandi]

On 13 Feb 91 14:27:21 GMT, krohn at cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Eric Krohn) said:

	[ ... about the latest AT&T ksh ... ]

krohn> When I checked yesterday on the AT&T Toolchest, the binary
krohn> sublicensing fee was $20,000, not $10,000.  That makes the
krohn> economics even worse.

There are some ksh PD clones around, and they do look pretty OK.
Consider the PD ksh, and ash, and clam, and the reactive keyboard if you
want advanced feature. You can always get tcsh if you really want a
feature laden shell. Tcsh needs csh sources, bu any University connected
guy can make a binary of tcsh for the 3b1 and distribute that. It has
already happened for 386s.

You can also try to port the line editing tty line discipline to the 3b1
from SysV/386; I think it should be a pretty easy exercise. It has been
posted to alt.sources and comp.unix.i386. I use it on my 386 without any
ksh or tcsh, just the stock bourne shell, and I like it giving history
to all commands I use, not just the shell.

krohn> Nawk would be nice (but perl is better :-).

gawk is there too. Another nice thing is the Vixie cron. Also GNU tar.
I think that two of the most useful things are the GNU fileutils, which
include a 'mv' command that will move around directories like the BSD
one, 'mmv' which renames files using patterns, and 'rh' that does the
same thing as find but is much much better.  Well, the endless list will
not be reproduced here.

krohn> Sam would be really nice (ported to mgr, of course).

Incidentally, remember elvis, the vi clone that is IMNHO a bit better
than vi itself.
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