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Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32

You're absolutely right. But I think the weakest side of all of those
projects is a much smaller support from free developers as a result of close
to public source policy.

With best regards,

Valery Tulnikov,
valtul@demos.su
http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul

----- Original Message -----
From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: Valery Tulnikov <valtul@demos.su>; Weiqi Gao <weiqigao@a.crl.com>;
cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 1999 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Good News; Questions about Korn Shell for Win32


>
>
>
> >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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> >> weiqigao@a.crl.com
> >>
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