Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: Adventure in UNIX commands - ksh - (nf) Message-ID: <1768@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 23:45:00 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1768 Posted: Mon Mar 5 23:45:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 07:02:10 EST References: <6027@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 27 >> I'm sure that everyone can agree that the korn shell rules! >> Too bad that it is only available inside of AT&T, eh? >> andy ihuxf!schnable > Consider this a stuffy disclaimer. This news group is NOT for discussion > of AT&T internal products, nor should it be. It is a general forum for > people running Unix and Unix-like systems, and no information should be > submitted to this group that shouldn't go to those people. > The Korn shell is something that is an AT&T program that hasn't been > announced to the "commericial marketplace". It's not your responsibility to > announce it. That wasn't an "announcement", it was merely a statement of the existence (and superiority) of the Korn shell. Dave Korn described that shell in a paper *given at a USENIX*, so it's hardly appropriate to chastise the man for revealing the secrets of the Knights of the Mystic AT&T Order Lodge. We all know about it, so "stuffy disclaimers" don't fool anybody. However, I am sorely tempted to try turning the S5R2 shell into a Korn shell once we get it; if AT&T wants to "set the standards" they're not going to do it by holding back software and shipping out binary-only releases that work only with their blessed and approved version of UNIX (e.g. the TTY 5620 code). Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy