KORN SHELL SOURCE REQUIRES SYSV SOURCE LICENSE, SORRY

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <1015 at ttrdc.UUCP>, levy at ttrdc.UUCP (I) write:
>I cannot speak for /bin/sh but however ksh (superset of Bourne, many bells
>and whistles, almost as efficient as SysV Bourne) is available as source
>for approximately $2000 (non AT&T sites) and will compile under a number of
>BSD variants as well as SysV.  It was authored by David Korn of Bell Labor-
>atories (ulysses!dgk).  Korn himself posted a notice to this effect in 
>net.unix-wizards [I think] some time ago.

Folks:

I wish to sincerely apologize for a posting where I was trying to be helpful
but unfortunately I overlooked the obvious, meaning that I have done no good
(groan...)

In order to get Korn shell source, you need a SysV source license.  Therefore
it won't do you much good if you don't already have this and want to keep your
old BSD as is (weakly don flame shield....)  Officially this is AT&T policy
at present, and I have no idea whether it is due to change in the future (I am
not told and if I was told probably I would not be allowed to say).

I still wish to say that in the long run you will be better off moving
your whole machine to SysV, whether binary only or source is up to
you.  The support and stability will be better than you would get with
any brand of BSD, and the OS and utilities are being constantly im-
proved.  Many BSD applications will compile under SysV as is, and many
others will do so with but minor upgrading.  There are also authorized
vendors (like HP-UX, though they may be restricted to certain machines)
which let you have the best of both worlds with a BSD compatible interface
in a SysV environment (or vice versa depending on how you choose to look at
it :-) ).

Again, my apologies for the glaring obvious mistake....
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